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Bochum weather

North Rhine-Westphalia · 385,729 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:44

Mainly clear
10°
Mainly clear
Feels like 10°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
7 km/h
Humidity
95 %
Pressure
1031 hPa
Clouds
39 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:19 Set 17:10 Day 9 h 50 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
10°8°
Feels like 10°
Wind ↑ E 4 km/h
Humidity 95 %
19:00
Mainly clear
10°
E 3
22:00
Partly cloudy
8°
E 4

Bochum 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)
3°6°9°12°15°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed9°5°Thu 29 Oct: max 13° · min 8° · normal 9.0°Fri 30 Oct: max 12° · min 7° · normal 8.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 6° · normal 8.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 11° · min 7° · normal 8.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 11° · min 7° · normal 8.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 9° · min 7° · normal 8.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 9° · min 5° · normal 8.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu1°8°15°13°3°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bochum climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 38 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 50 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 61 mm and 97 mm on average.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C.

Even the coldest month, January, keeps nights above freezing on average (0 °C).

Forecast highs for the coming week average 11 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan5 °C0 °C91 mm
Feb6 °C1 °C76 mm
Mar9 °C3 °C78 mm
Apr14 °C6 °C61 mm
May17 °C9 °C73 mm
Jun21 °C12 °C81 mm
Jul23 °C15 °C96 mm
Aug23 °C15 °C92 mm
Sep19 °C11 °C81 mm
Oct14 °C8 °C81 mm
Nov9 °C4 °C83 mm
Dec5 °C2 °C97 mm
Whole year14 °C7 °C990 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.48° N, 7.22° 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 Bochum: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.516µg/m³
PM1028µg/m³
O₃28µg/m³
NO₂30µg/m³
SO₂4µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bochum

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

Moon over Bochum

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:29 Set 23:04
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/Berlin); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Bochum

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

Bochum weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia: 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 10 °C (feels like 10 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 8 °C to 13 °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