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Yunnan · 5,950,578 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:41

Air: Poor Low storm risk · Thu

15°

Rain showers

Feels like 15°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

25 km/h

Humidity

88 %

Pressure

1021 hPa

Clouds

58 %

Storm

Rise 07:15 Set 18:30 Day 11 h 15 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Rain showers

18°15°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ SSW 10 km/h

Gusts 25 km/h

Humidity 72 %

💧 0.3 mm

Morning

Clear sky

21°15°

Feels like 23°

Wind ↑ SW 14 km/h

Gusts 22 km/h

Humidity 54 %

💧 0.1 mm

Afternoon

Overcast

23°22°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ WSW 18 km/h

Gusts 24 km/h

Humidity 53 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

19°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ SSW 11 km/h

Gusts 25 km/h

Humidity 68 %

08:00

15°

0.1mm

SSW 8

11:00

21°

SW 14

14:00

23°

WSW 18

17:00

22°

WSW 14

20:00

19°

SW 10

23:00

19°

SSW 11

02:00

16°

SW 9

05:00

16°

SW 7

Kunming forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +6.0° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Kunming climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 54% of the annual total; July by itself averages 284 mm.

The hottest stretch is June, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 4 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,490 mm of rain — more than 75% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 23 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	15 °C	4 °C	39 mm
Feb	17 °C	7 °C	32 mm
Mar	21 °C	10 °C	45 mm
Apr	23 °C	13 °C	71 mm
May	24 °C	16 °C	142 mm
Jun	24 °C	18 °C	278 mm
Jul	24 °C	18 °C	284 mm
Aug	24 °C	17 °C	241 mm
Sep	23 °C	16 °C	171 mm
Oct	20 °C	13 °C	119 mm
Nov	18 °C	9 °C	37 mm
Dec	15 °C	5 °C	28 mm
Whole year	21 °C	12 °C	1,490 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.04° N, 102.72° 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 Kunming: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.529µg/m³

PM1029µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kunming

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

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

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

Moon over Kunming

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 19:04 Set 08:30

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 Kunming

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

Kunming weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kunming, Yunnan: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 23 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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

Wenshan City 243 km 17°

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