11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Drizzle
5°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ E 8 km/h
Humidity 85 %
💧 0.8 mm
Evening
Rain
4°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ E 3 km/h
Humidity 94 %
💧 5.0 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
5°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ WNW 8 km/h
Gusts17 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Clear sky
5°
Feels like 5°
Wind↑ SW 1 km/h
Humidity 72 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Partly cloudy
3°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ E 3 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Evening
Rain
6°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ E 11 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 5.4 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Light rain
6°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ NW 12 km/h
Gusts25 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 1.9 mm
Sofia forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Sofia climate: what a normal year looks like
Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −6 °C in January.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −6 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 23 °C.
From 15 h 19 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 02 min in late December.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 41 mm and 86 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 10 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (16 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
2 °C
−6 °C
46 mm
Feb
5 °C
−4 °C
47 mm
Mar
10 °C
0 °C
64 mm
Apr
15 °C
5 °C
69 mm
May
19 °C
9 °C
86 mm
Jun
23 °C
12 °C
77 mm
Jul
26 °C
14 °C
64 mm
Aug
27 °C
14 °C
44 mm
Sep
22 °C
10 °C
44 mm
Oct
16 °C
6 °C
51 mm
Nov
9 °C
1 °C
41 mm
Dec
4 °C
−3 °C
52 mm
Whole year
15 °C
5 °C
690 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 42.70° N, 23.32° 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 Sofia: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.518µg/m³
PM1020µg/m³
O₃28µg/m³
NO₂11µg/m³
SO₂4µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Sofia
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Sofia, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Sofia
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:17 Set 20:04
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Sofia); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Sofia
Curious about the weather in Sofia on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Sofia weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Sofia, Sofia-Capital: 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 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.
Expected range today: 9 °C to 11 °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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