10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
23°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ WSW 4 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 3.1 mm
Evening
Rain
24°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ E 4 km/h
Humidity 95 %
💧 7.4 mm
⚡ storm
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
22°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ SSW 3 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 3.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
24°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ ESE 4 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 2.1 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
23°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ SSW 3 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
25°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ E 1 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 2.8 mm
⚡ storm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain
23°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ SW 3 km/h
Humidity 97 %
💧 6.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
24°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ NE 4 km/h
Humidity 94 %
💧 3.6 mm
⚡ storm
Medan forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Medan climate: what a normal year looks like
Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — November, the mildest, still averages 30 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 3,150 mm of rain — more than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 19 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 55 min in late December.
The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 31 °C, against a usual 31 °C.
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
31 °C
23 °C
222 mm
Feb
31 °C
23 °C
162 mm
Mar
32 °C
23 °C
199 mm
Apr
32 °C
23 °C
244 mm
May
32 °C
24 °C
267 mm
Jun
32 °C
24 °C
201 mm
Jul
32 °C
23 °C
205 mm
Aug
32 °C
23 °C
240 mm
Sep
31 °C
23 °C
331 mm
Oct
31 °C
23 °C
371 mm
Nov
30 °C
23 °C
376 mm
Dec
30 °C
23 °C
333 mm
Whole year
31 °C
23 °C
3,150 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 3.58° N, 98.67° 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 Medan: pollution and pollen
5/6
Very poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.555µg/m³
PM1055µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Medan
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Medan, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Medan yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Medan
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 21:07 Set 08:58
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
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Jakarta); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Medan
Curious about the weather in Medan on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Medan weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Medan, North Sumatra: 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 22 °C (feels like 31 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.
Expected range today: 23 °C to 32 °C and around 2 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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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