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Lhasa weather

Tibet · 867,900 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:33

Partly cloudy
7°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 5°C
Wind
9 km/h
Gusts
9 km/h
Humidity
50 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
56 %
Storm
No
Rise 08:07 Set 19:11 Day 11 h 3 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Rain showers
Rain showers
5°2°
Feels like 5°
Wind ↑ WSW 2 km/h
Humidity 62 %
💧 1.2 mm
Morning
Rain showers
Rain showers
5°3°
Feels like 3°
Wind ↑ S 8 km/h
Humidity 62 %
💧 0.9 mm
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
10°9°
Feels like 10°
Wind ↑ S 9 km/h
Humidity 38 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
7°5°
Feels like 7°
Wind ↑ S 10 km/h
Humidity 64 %
08:00
Rain showers
3°
0.8mm
W 2
11:00
Mainly clear
5°
0.1mm
S 8
14:00
Mainly clear
9°
0.1mm
S 4
17:00
Mainly clear
10°
S 9
20:00
Mainly clear
7°
WSW 2
23:00
Mainly clear
5°
S 10
02:00
Partly cloudy
4°
0.1mm
WSW 3
05:00
Mainly clear
3°
0.1mm
S 7

Lhasa forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +7.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-5°-0°5°9°14°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed10°-2°Thu 29 Oct: max 10° · min 2° · normal -1.6°Fri 30 Oct: max 10° · min 3° · normal -1.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 1° · normal -2.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 0° · normal -2.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 12° · min -1° · normal -2.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 10° · min -2° · normal -2.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 10° · min -2° · normal -3.1°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri-3°6°14°12°-2°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Lhasa climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from October to April, the coldest averaging −15 °C in January.

Day and night differ most in December: 2 °C in the afternoon against −14 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 56% of the annual total; July by itself averages 159 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 740 mm of rain — less than 69% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 11 °C, against a usual 11 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan0 °C−15 °C11 mm
Feb3 °C−11 °C11 mm
Mar6 °C−7 °C23 mm
Apr10 °C−3 °C42 mm
May14 °C2 °C62 mm
Jun18 °C7 °C100 mm
Jul18 °C9 °C159 mm
Aug17 °C8 °C155 mm
Sep15 °C6 °C102 mm
Oct11 °C−2 °C49 mm
Nov4 °C−11 °C16 mm
Dec2 °C−14 °C9 mm
Whole year10 °C−2 °C740 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.65° N, 91.10° 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 Lhasa: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Lhasa

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

Moon over Lhasa

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 19:40 Set 09:31
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 Lhasa

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

Lhasa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Lhasa, Tibet: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 7 °C (feels like 5 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 3 °C to 10 °C and around 1 mm of rain. 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