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Datong weather

Shanxi · 3,105,591 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:26

Air: Extremely poor

3°

Clear sky

Feels like -0°C

Wind

10 km/h

Gusts

27 km/h

Humidity

47 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:53 Set 17:27 Day 10 h 34 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

5°3°

Feels like 3°

Wind ↑ WSW 11 km/h

Gusts 27 km/h

Humidity 34 %

Morning

Clear sky

10°3°

Feels like 8°

Wind ↑ WNW 17 km/h

Gusts 26 km/h

Humidity 20 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

14°11°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ WNW 19 km/h

Gusts 25 km/h

Humidity 22 %

Evening

Clear sky

7°6°

Feels like 7°

Wind ↑ WNW 6 km/h

Humidity 33 %

08:00

3°

WSW 11

11:00

10°

WNW 17

14:00

14°

WNW 19

17:00

11°

WNW 13

20:00

6°

WNW 6

23:00

7°

SSE 4

02:00

0°

NNW 2

05:00

4°

E 6

Datong 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)

Datong climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −16 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −16 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 33 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 480 mm of rain — less than 87% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 55% of the annual total; July by itself averages 104 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−4 °C	−16 °C	4 mm
Feb	1 °C	−11 °C	7 mm
Mar	8 °C	−4 °C	17 mm
Apr	16 °C	2 °C	30 mm
May	22 °C	9 °C	42 mm
Jun	27 °C	15 °C	65 mm
Jul	28 °C	17 °C	104 mm
Aug	26 °C	16 °C	91 mm
Sep	22 °C	10 °C	71 mm
Oct	14 °C	2 °C	33 mm
Nov	5 °C	−5 °C	15 mm
Dec	−2 °C	−13 °C	4 mm
Whole year	14 °C	2 °C	480 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 40.09° N, 113.29° 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 Datong: pollution and pollen

6/6

Extremely poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.558µg/m³

PM10186µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Datong

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

Moon over Datong

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 17:33 Set 08:34

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 Datong

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

Datong weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Datong, Shanxi: 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 3 °C (feels like -0 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 0 °C to 14 °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

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