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Shihezi weather

Xinjiang · 572,772 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:02

Partly cloudy
3°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 1°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
20 km/h
Humidity
70 %
Pressure
1028 hPa
Clouds
54 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:49 Set 17:09 Day 10 h 19 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
4°3°
Feels like 1°
Wind ↑ SW 9 km/h
Gusts 20 km/h
Humidity 47 %
Morning
Clear sky
Clear sky
8°1°
Feels like 7°
Wind ↑ S 5 km/h
Humidity 38 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
Clear sky
13°12°
Feels like 13°
Wind ↑ N 8 km/h
Humidity 30 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
8°
Feels like 7°
Wind ↑ NW 6 km/h
Humidity 46 %
06:00
Clear sky
1°
S 5
09:00
Clear sky
8°
SE 5
12:00
Clear sky
12°
ENE 6
15:00
Clear sky
13°
N 8
18:00
Clear sky
8°
W 1
21:00
Partly cloudy
8°
NW 6
00:00
Overcast
4°
SW 4
03:00
Mainly clear
6°
E 9

Shihezi forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.3° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-3°2°6°11°15°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed12°-0°Thu 29 Oct: max 5° · min 3° · normal 4.0°Fri 30 Oct: max 13° · min 1° · normal 3.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 2° · normal 3.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 10° · min 0° · normal 3.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 9° · min -1° · normal 2.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 12° · min 1° · normal 2.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 12° · min -0° · normal 2.2°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri-2°6°14°13°-1°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Shihezi climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −20 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −20 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 41 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 270 mm of rain — less than 95% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From 15 h 31 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 51 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 11 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (17 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−11 °C−20 °C8 mm
Feb−5 °C−14 °C9 mm
Mar7 °C−3 °C19 mm
Apr20 °C8 °C37 mm
May26 °C13 °C41 mm
Jun30 °C19 °C22 mm
Jul31 °C21 °C24 mm
Aug31 °C19 °C27 mm
Sep25 °C13 °C27 mm
Oct17 °C6 °C29 mm
Nov4 °C−4 °C20 mm
Dec−8 °C−15 °C10 mm
Whole year14 °C4 °C270 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 44.30° N, 86.04° 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 Shihezi: pollution and pollen

3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.523µg/m³
PM1026µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Shihezi

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

Moon over Shihezi

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 21:11 Set 12:45
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 Shihezi

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

Shihezi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Shihezi, Xinjiang: 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 3 °C (feels like 1 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 1 °C to 13 °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