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Kashgar weather

Xinjiang · 506,640 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:24

Clear sky
7°
Clear sky
Feels like 7°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
36 %
Pressure
1020 hPa
Clouds
3 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:21 Set 17:57 Day 10 h 35 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
8°7°
Feels like 8°
Wind ↑ S 5 km/h
Humidity 49 %
Morning
Clear sky
Clear sky
9°5°
Feels like 9°
Wind ↑ E 3 km/h
Humidity 32 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
16°15°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ ESE 6 km/h
Humidity 23 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
15°13°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ SE 3 km/h
Humidity 36 %
06:00
Clear sky
5°
NW 3
09:00
Clear sky
9°
E 3
12:00
Clear sky
15°
ESE 3
15:00
Mainly clear
16°
ESE 6
18:00
Partly cloudy
15°
SE 3
21:00
Partly cloudy
13°
N 1
00:00
Partly cloudy
9°
NW 6
03:00
Clear sky
10°
E 1

Kashgar forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
3°7°11°15°19°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed15°5°Thu 29 Oct: max 11° · min 7° · normal 7.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 16° · min 5° · normal 7.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 16° · min 6° · normal 6.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 15° · min 6° · normal 6.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 15° · min 6° · normal 6.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 17° · min 5° · normal 6.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 15° · min 5° · normal 6.0°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri3°11°18°17°5°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kashgar climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 180 mm of rain — less than 97% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −9 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 31 °C.

Nights typically freeze from November to February, the coldest averaging −9 °C in January.

From November to January, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−1 °C−9 °C7 mm
Feb5 °C−5 °C12 mm
Mar14 °C2 °C15 mm
Apr22 °C10 °C12 mm
May27 °C15 °C23 mm
Jun31 °C19 °C18 mm
Jul32 °C20 °C17 mm
Aug30 °C19 °C26 mm
Sep26 °C14 °C25 mm
Oct20 °C7 °C12 mm
Nov10 °C−1 °C9 mm
Dec2 °C−7 °C7 mm
Whole year18 °C7 °C180 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.47° N, 75.99° 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 Kashgar: pollution and pollen

6/6
Extremely poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.575µg/m³
PM10153µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kashgar

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

Moon over Kashgar

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 22:13 Set 13:06
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/Urumqi); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Kashgar

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

Kashgar weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kashgar, Xinjiang: 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 7 °C (feels like 7 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 5 °C to 16 °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