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 7°
Wind↑ SE 11 km/h
Gusts17 km/h
Humidity 81 %
Evening
Light rain
10°
Feels like 7°
Wind↑ E 16 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 1.1 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
10°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ NE 28 km/h
Gusts37 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 0.4 mm
Evening
Mainly clear
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ NNE 25 km/h
Gusts36 km/h
Humidity 67 %
💧 0.1 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
9°
Feels like 7°
Wind↑ NW 14 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 0.2 mm
Evening
Overcast
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ WNW 20 km/h
Gusts27 km/h
Humidity 72 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
10°
Feels like 7°
Wind↑ NW 20 km/h
Gusts29 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 0.3 mm
Dunkerque 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)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Dunkerque climate: what a normal year looks like
From 16 h 33 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 54 min in late December.
Swimmers find the warmest sea in August (18 °C) and the coolest in February (7 °C).
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 51 mm and 73 mm on average.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 22 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 3 °C.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Sea
Jan
7 °C
3 °C
62 mm
8 °C
Feb
8 °C
4 °C
53 mm
7 °C
Mar
10 °C
5 °C
52 mm
7 °C
Apr
13 °C
7 °C
51 mm
9 °C
May
17 °C
10 °C
61 mm
11 °C
Jun
19 °C
12 °C
62 mm
14 °C
Jul
22 °C
15 °C
61 mm
17 °C
Aug
22 °C
15 °C
71 mm
18 °C
Sep
19 °C
13 °C
61 mm
18 °C
Oct
15 °C
10 °C
69 mm
16 °C
Nov
11 °C
7 °C
70 mm
13 °C
Dec
8 °C
4 °C
73 mm
10 °C
Whole year
14 °C
9 °C
750 mm
12 °C
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.02° N, 2.34° 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 Dunkerque: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
O₃45µg/m³
NO₂21µg/m³
SO₂9µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Dunkerque
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Dunkerque, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Dunkerque
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:54 Set 23:22
Fri30/1079%
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
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Paris); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Sea and tides near Dunkerque
Tide station used: Grande-Synthe · 3 km away
🌊 Sea surface
15.1 °C
satellite, 29/10
Sea state
Rippled
waves 0.2 m
Period
5 s
Swell
0.2 m
TodayThu 29/10
High range92
High tide02:236.2 m
Low tide09:180.9 m
High tide14:406.2 m
Low tide21:350.8 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High range82
High tide03:056.0 m
Low tide10:031.0 m
High tide15:256.1 m
Low tide22:221.0 m
SatSat 31/10
High range70
High tide03:515.8 m
Low tide10:521.2 m
High tide16:145.8 m
Low tide23:161.3 m
SunSun 01/11
Mean tide58
High tide04:425.4 m
Low tide11:491.4 m
High tide17:115.4 m
Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest. · more tide detail on TidesAtlas
Look up a past day in Dunkerque
Curious about the weather in Dunkerque on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Dunkerque weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Dunkerque, Nord (59): 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 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.
Expected range today: 9 °C to 15 °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, plus the tide times for Grande-Synthe.
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