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Nanjing weather

Jiangsu · 9,314,685 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:59

Clear sky
13°
Clear sky
Feels like 13°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
7 km/h
Humidity
96 %
Pressure
1021 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:19 Set 17:17 Day 10 h 57 min UV 7 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Clear sky
Clear sky
14°13°
Feels like 14°
Wind ↑ W 7 km/h
Humidity 78 %
Morning
Clear sky
Clear sky
21°13°
Feels like 21°
Wind ↑ WSW 9 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
Clear sky
23°21°
Feels like 24°
Wind ↑ WSW 11 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
18°15°
Feels like 18°
Wind ↑ SW 9 km/h
Humidity 46 %
08:00
Clear sky
13°
SW 7
11:00
Clear sky
21°
WSW 9
14:00
Clear sky
23°
WSW 11
17:00
Clear sky
21°
WSW 6
20:00
Clear sky
15°
SW 9
23:00
Clear sky
18°
E 4
02:00
Clear sky
12°
WSW 4
05:00
Clear sky
16°
E 7

Nanjing forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
9°13°18°22°26°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed16°14°Thu 29 Oct: max 19° · min 13° · normal 13.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 23° · min 12° · normal 13.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 24° · min 14° · normal 13.4°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 12° · normal 13.4°Mon 2 Nov: max 19° · min 11° · normal 13.2°Tue 3 Nov: max 17° · min 13° · normal 13.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 16° · min 14° · normal 12.8°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu10°18°25°24°11°04
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Nanjing climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 25 °C.

Freezing nights are typical in January only (0 °C on average).

From 14 h 15 min of daylight in late June to 10 h 03 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 19 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (22 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan6 °C0 °C57 mm
Feb10 °C2 °C57 mm
Mar14 °C6 °C82 mm
Apr21 °C12 °C92 mm
May26 °C18 °C123 mm
Jun29 °C22 °C223 mm
Jul31 °C25 °C215 mm
Aug32 °C25 °C177 mm
Sep27 °C20 °C85 mm
Oct22 °C14 °C56 mm
Nov17 °C9 °C55 mm
Dec10 °C2 °C36 mm
Whole year20 °C13 °C1,260 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 32.06° N, 118.78° 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 Nanjing: pollution and pollen

5/6
Very poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.562µg/m³
PM1069µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Nanjing

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

Moon over Nanjing

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 17:37 Set 07:43
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 Nanjing

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

Nanjing weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Nanjing, Jiangsu: 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 13 °C (feels like 13 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 12 °C to 23 °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