10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Drizzle
8°
Feels like 7°
Wind↑ NE 8 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 0.8 mm
Evening
Overcast
9°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ NE 7 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 0.1 mm
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
9°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ NE 5 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
9°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ NW 4 km/h
Humidity 94 %
💧 0.5 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Drizzle
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ SSE 2 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 0.2 mm
Evening
Mainly clear
10°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ NE 9 km/h
Humidity 92 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Overcast
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ N 2 km/h
Humidity 84 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ ESE 2 km/h
Humidity 71 %
Zhaotong forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +3.9° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Zhaotong climate: what a normal year looks like
Nights typically freeze in December and January, the coldest averaging −2 °C in January.
The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 51% of the annual total; July by itself averages 228 mm.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −2 °C.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (16 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
8 °C
−2 °C
31 mm
Feb
12 °C
1 °C
29 mm
Mar
15 °C
4 °C
49 mm
Apr
18 °C
8 °C
67 mm
May
21 °C
12 °C
109 mm
Jun
22 °C
15 °C
183 mm
Jul
23 °C
16 °C
228 mm
Aug
23 °C
16 °C
201 mm
Sep
21 °C
13 °C
142 mm
Oct
16 °C
9 °C
94 mm
Nov
14 °C
5 °C
43 mm
Dec
9 °C
0 °C
30 mm
Whole year
17 °C
8 °C
1,210 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 27.32° N, 103.72° 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 Zhaotong: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.51µg/m³
PM101µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Zhaotong
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Zhaotong, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Zhaotong yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Zhaotong
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 18:54 Set 08:32
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Shanghai); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Zhaotong
Curious about the weather in Zhaotong on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Zhaotong weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Zhaotong, Yunnan: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.
Expected range today: 11 °C to 20 °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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