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Koeln weather

North Rhine-Westphalia · 1,024,621 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:41

Partly cloudy
11°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 11°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
2 km/h
Humidity
86 %
Pressure
1030 hPa
Clouds
52 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:19 Set 17:12 Day 9 h 53 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
11°9°
Feels like 11°
Wind ↑ NE 2 km/h
Humidity 86 %
19:00
Partly cloudy
11°
N 2
22:00
Clear sky
9°
NE 2

Koeln 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)
1°5°9°12°16°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed11°5°Thu 29 Oct: max 14° · min 5° · normal 9.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 14° · min 5° · normal 9.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 13° · min 3° · normal 9.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 10° · min 4° · normal 9.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 11° · min 6° · normal 8.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 11° · min 7° · normal 8.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 11° · min 5° · normal 8.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu2°9°15°14°3°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Koeln climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 32 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 55 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 55 mm and 98 mm on average.

The hottest stretch is July, 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 12 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan5 °C0 °C87 mm
Feb7 °C2 °C74 mm
Mar10 °C3 °C74 mm
Apr14 °C6 °C55 mm
May18 °C9 °C67 mm
Jun21 °C12 °C75 mm
Jul23 °C15 °C83 mm
Aug23 °C15 °C84 mm
Sep19 °C11 °C72 mm
Oct14 °C9 °C81 mm
Nov9 °C5 °C84 mm
Dec6 °C2 °C98 mm
Whole year14 °C7 °C930 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 50.93° N, 6.95° 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 Koeln: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1023µg/m³
O₃13µg/m³
NO₂36µg/m³
SO₂5µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Koeln

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

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:35 Set 23:01
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 Koeln

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

Koeln weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Koeln, 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 “partly cloudy”, it is 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 5 °C to 14 °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