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Copenhagen weather

Capital Region · 1,153,615 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:34

Mainly clear
9°
Mainly clear
Feels like 8°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
14 km/h
Humidity
96 %
Pressure
1029 hPa
Clouds
42 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:09 Set 16:37 Day 9 h 28 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
10°9°
Feels like 9°
Wind ↑ W 7 km/h
Gusts 14 km/h
Humidity 96 %
22:00
Mainly clear
9°
W 7

Copenhagen forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
0°4°7°11°14°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed8°2°Thu 29 Oct: max 12° · min 9° · normal 7.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 12° · min 9° · normal 7.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 10° · normal 7.6°Sun 1 Nov: max 10° · min 8° · normal 7.6°Mon 2 Nov: max 12° · min 8° · normal 7.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 8° · min 5° · normal 7.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 8° · min 2° · normal 7.2°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu0°7°13°12°2°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Copenhagen climate: what a normal year looks like

From 17 h 32 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 01 min in late December.

Nights typically freeze in January and February, the coldest averaging −2 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 21 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −2 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 45 mm and 83 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 10 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (12 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan3 °C−2 °C56 mm
Feb4 °C−1 °C47 mm
Mar6 °C0 °C48 mm
Apr11 °C4 °C45 mm
May15 °C7 °C57 mm
Jun19 °C11 °C76 mm
Jul21 °C13 °C77 mm
Aug21 °C14 °C83 mm
Sep17 °C11 °C64 mm
Oct12 °C7 °C65 mm
Nov8 °C4 °C56 mm
Dec5 °C1 °C59 mm
Whole year12 °C6 °C730 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 55.68° N, 12.57° 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 Copenhagen: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.57µg/m³
PM1012µg/m³
O₃49µg/m³
NO₂8µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Copenhagen

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Copenhagen, 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

Moon over Copenhagen

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:26 Set 23:23
Fri 30/10 79%
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

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Copenhagen); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Copenhagen

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

Copenhagen weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Copenhagen, Capital Region: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 9 °C (feels like 8 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 9 °C to 12 °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