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Taiyuan weather

Shanxi · 5,305,061 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 03:03

Air: Very poor

5°

Clear sky

Feels like 3°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

49 %

Pressure

1020 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:52 Set 17:33 Day 10 h 41 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

8°5°

Feels like 8°

Wind ↑ S 6 km/h

Humidity 30 %

Morning

Clear sky

14°5°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ SW 6 km/h

Gusts 15 km/h

Humidity 19 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

18°16°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ WNW 14 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 13 %

Evening

Clear sky

12°9°

Feels like 12°

Wind ↑ NNW 5 km/h

Gusts 11 km/h

Humidity 20 %

08:00

5°

WSW 6

11:00

14°

SW 4

14:00

18°

WNW 14

17:00

16°

NW 14

20:00

9°

NNW 5

23:00

12°

NNW 1

02:00

4°

N 3

05:00

10°

N 6

Taiyuan forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.3° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Taiyuan climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −11 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −11 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 29 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 57% of the annual total; July by itself averages 126 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 540 mm of rain — less than 85% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (16 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	0 °C	−11 °C	5 mm
Feb	5 °C	−6 °C	9 mm
Mar	11 °C	−1 °C	19 mm
Apr	18 °C	5 °C	33 mm
May	23 °C	11 °C	40 mm
Jun	27 °C	16 °C	66 mm
Jul	28 °C	19 °C	126 mm
Aug	27 °C	17 °C	114 mm
Sep	23 °C	12 °C	71 mm
Oct	16 °C	5 °C	38 mm
Nov	9 °C	−2 °C	17 mm
Dec	2 °C	−8 °C	5 mm
Whole year	16 °C	5 °C	540 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.87° N, 112.56° 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 Taiyuan: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.545µg/m³

PM10122µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Taiyuan

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

Moon over Taiyuan

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 17:45 Set 08:29

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 Taiyuan

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

Taiyuan weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Taiyuan, Shanxi: 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 5 °C (feels like 3 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 4 °C to 18 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Shijiazhuang 169 km 11°

Luancheng 183 km 16°

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