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Zhangye weather

Gansu · 507,433 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 00:55

Air: Good

6°

Clear sky

Feels like 6°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

18 %

Pressure

1021 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 07:42 Set 18:20 Day 10 h 37 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

5°2°

Feels like 4°

Wind ↑ S 7 km/h

Humidity 19 %

Morning

Clear sky

12°0°

Feels like 12°

Wind ↑ ESE 6 km/h

Humidity 13 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

17°14°

Feels like 17°

Wind ↑ NNW 30 km/h

Humidity 12 %

Evening

Clear sky

8°7°

Feels like 6°

Wind ↑ NW 8 km/h

Gusts 21 km/h

Humidity 26 %

08:00

0°

ESE 6

11:00

12°

SSE 2

14:00

17°

NW 9

17:00

14°

NNW 30

20:00

8°

NW 7

23:00

7°

NNW 8

02:00

3°

NNW 1

05:00

4°

NW 5

Zhangye forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.8° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Zhangye climate: what a normal year looks like

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

A normal year brings roughly 230 mm of rain — less than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −15 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 30 °C.

From November to March, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 13 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−1 °C	−15 °C	5 mm
Feb	4 °C	−10 °C	5 mm
Mar	10 °C	−4 °C	9 mm
Apr	17 °C	3 °C	12 mm
May	21 °C	8 °C	20 mm
Jun	25 °C	13 °C	29 mm
Jul	28 °C	15 °C	50 mm
Aug	26 °C	14 °C	43 mm
Sep	21 °C	9 °C	32 mm
Oct	15 °C	1 °C	12 mm
Nov	7 °C	−6 °C	5 mm
Dec	1 °C	−12 °C	6 mm
Whole year	15 °C	1 °C	230 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 38.93° N, 100.45° 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 Zhangye: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.53µg/m³

PM103µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Zhangye

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

Moon over Zhangye

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 18:32 Set 09:23

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 Zhangye

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

Zhangye weather at a glance

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

Expected range today: 0 °C to 17 °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

Jiuquan 189 km 7°

Wuwei 220 km 8°

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