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Pest weather

Budapest · 1,001,748 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:27

Partly cloudy
11°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 11°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
11 km/h
Humidity
74 %
Pressure
1025 hPa
Clouds
53 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:22 Set 16:31 Day 10 h 8 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind ↑ NNW 5 km/h
Gusts 12 km/h
Humidity 74 %
22:00
Partly cloudy
11°
NNW 5

Pest 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°8°12°16°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed13°2°Thu 29 Oct: max 14° · min 11° · normal 9.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 14° · min 11° · normal 9.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 12° · min 9° · normal 9.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 13° · min 6° · normal 9.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 13° · min 6° · normal 8.8°Tue 3 Nov: max 10° · min 7° · normal 8.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 13° · min 2° · normal 8.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-1°7°15°14°0°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Pest climate: what a normal year looks like

From 15 h 58 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 26 min in late December.

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −3 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −3 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 22 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 39 mm and 73 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 13 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (16 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan2 °C−3 °C40 mm
Feb5 °C−2 °C39 mm
Mar10 °C2 °C43 mm
Apr17 °C7 °C48 mm
May21 °C11 °C70 mm
Jun24 °C15 °C73 mm
Jul27 °C16 °C72 mm
Aug27 °C16 °C59 mm
Sep22 °C12 °C60 mm
Oct16 °C7 °C55 mm
Nov9 °C3 °C54 mm
Dec3 °C−2 °C48 mm
Whole year15 °C7 °C660 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 47.50° N, 19.08° 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 Pest: pollution and pollen

3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.521µg/m³
PM1025µg/m³
O₃40µg/m³
NO₂13µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Pest

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

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:09 Set 21:48
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/Budapest); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Pest

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

Pest weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Pest, Budapest: 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 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °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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