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Beijing · 18,960,744 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:32

Air: Extremely poor

6°

Clear sky

Feels like 5°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

22 km/h

Humidity

61 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:40 Set 17:15 Day 10 h 34 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

12°6°

Feels like 12°

Wind ↑ NW 7 km/h

Gusts 22 km/h

Humidity 25 %

Morning

Clear sky

18°7°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ NW 21 km/h

Gusts 40 km/h

Humidity 14 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

22°18°

Feels like 22°

Wind ↑ WNW 16 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 16 %

Evening

Clear sky

14°11°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ NE 19 km/h

Gusts 38 km/h

Humidity 28 %

08:00

7°

NW 8

11:00

18°

NW 21

14:00

22°

WNW 16

17:00

18°

NNW 12

20:00

14°

N 14

23:00

11°

NE 19

02:00

7°

NNE 9

05:00

9°

SSE 4

Beijing forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.4° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Beijing climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −8 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 31 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 65% of the annual total; July by itself averages 161 mm.

Nights typically freeze from November to February, the coldest averaging −8 °C in January.

A normal year brings roughly 550 mm of rain — less than 85% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	2 °C	−8 °C	4 mm
Feb	6 °C	−5 °C	7 mm
Mar	13 °C	0 °C	11 mm
Apr	22 °C	9 °C	21 mm
May	28 °C	15 °C	38 mm
Jun	32 °C	21 °C	77 mm
Jul	33 °C	23 °C	161 mm
Aug	31 °C	22 °C	123 mm
Sep	27 °C	16 °C	58 mm
Oct	20 °C	8 °C	34 mm
Nov	11 °C	−1 °C	16 mm
Dec	3 °C	−6 °C	5 mm
Whole year	19 °C	8 °C	550 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.91° N, 116.40° 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 Beijing: pollution and pollen

6/6

Extremely poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.5183µg/m³

PM10193µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Beijing

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Beijing, 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 Beijing yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Beijing

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 17:21 Set 08:21

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

Wed 11/11 3%

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

Look up a past day in Beijing

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

Beijing weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Beijing, Beijing: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 6 °C (feels like 5 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 7 °C to 22 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Zhangjiakou 162 km 6°

Beijing weather data for developers

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