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Yan'an weather

Shaanxi · 475,234 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 01:50

Air: Poor

8°

Clear sky

Feels like 6°C

Wind

8 km/h

Gusts

8 km/h

Humidity

29 %

Pressure

1022 hPa

Clouds

4 %

Storm

Rise 07:03 Set 17:48 Day 10 h 44 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

6°4°

Feels like 5°

Wind ↑ W 11 km/h

Humidity 30 %

Morning

Clear sky

13°3°

Feels like 13°

Wind ↑ N 8 km/h

Humidity 18 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

18°14°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ E 10 km/h

Humidity 19 %

Evening

Clear sky

8°

Feels like 7°

Wind ↑ SE 8 km/h

Humidity 29 %

08:00

3°

W 7

11:00

13°

N 8

14:00

18°

NNW 1

17:00

14°

E 10

20:00

8°

SE 8

23:00

8°

SE 7

02:00

4°

S 3

05:00

7°

E 3

Yan'an forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.4° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Yan'an climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −10 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 28 °C.

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −10 °C in January.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 56% of the annual total; August by itself averages 134 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 620 mm of rain — less than 81% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 14 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (16 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	1 °C	−10 °C	8 mm
Feb	5 °C	−6 °C	12 mm
Mar	11 °C	0 °C	24 mm
Apr	19 °C	6 °C	38 mm
May	23 °C	12 °C	47 mm
Jun	27 °C	16 °C	60 mm
Jul	28 °C	19 °C	130 mm
Aug	26 °C	17 °C	134 mm
Sep	22 °C	13 °C	88 mm
Oct	16 °C	6 °C	56 mm
Nov	9 °C	−1 °C	23 mm
Dec	2 °C	−8 °C	6 mm
Whole year	16 °C	5 °C	620 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 36.60° N, 109.49° 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 Yan'an: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.525µg/m³

PM1062µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Yan'an

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

Moon over Yan'an

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 18:02 Set 08:37

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 Yan'an

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

Yan'an weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Yan'an, Shaanxi: 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 8 °C (feels like 6 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 3 °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.

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