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Plovdiv weather

Plovdiv · 329,489 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:53

Overcast
15°
Overcast
Feels like 15°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
8 km/h
Humidity
66 %
Pressure
1019 hPa
Clouds
94 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:50 Set 17:19 Day 10 h 29 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
15°14°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ S 4 km/h
Humidity 66 %
20:00
Overcast
15°
S 4
23:00
Overcast
14°
S 2

Plovdiv forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
7°10°14°17°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed12°9°Thu 29 Oct: max 18° · min 14° · normal 11.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 14° · min 12° · normal 11.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 13° · min 11° · normal 11.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 11° · normal 11.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 13° · min 11° · normal 11.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 16° · min 10° · normal 10.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 12° · min 9° · normal 10.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu6°12°17°16°7°017
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Plovdiv climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 23 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −4 °C in January.

From 15 h 15 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 06 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 36 mm and 78 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 14 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan5 °C−4 °C51 mm
Feb8 °C−1 °C51 mm
Mar12 °C2 °C68 mm
Apr17 °C6 °C64 mm
May22 °C11 °C78 mm
Jun26 °C15 °C72 mm
Jul29 °C17 °C57 mm
Aug30 °C17 °C37 mm
Sep24 °C13 °C58 mm
Oct18 °C8 °C53 mm
Nov12 °C3 °C49 mm
Dec7 °C−1 °C61 mm
Whole year17 °C7 °C700 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 42.15° N, 24.75° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Plovdiv: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM107µg/m³
O₃42µg/m³
NO₂5µg/m³
SO₂2µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Plovdiv

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Plovdiv, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Plovdiv yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Plovdiv

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:14 Set 19:56
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Sofia); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Plovdiv

Curious about the weather in Plovdiv on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Plovdiv weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Plovdiv, Plovdiv: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 14 °C to 18 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations