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Kingston · 937,700 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:12

Rain showers
27°
Rain showers
Feels like 37°C
Wind
13 km/h
Gusts
13 km/h
Humidity
80 %
Pressure
1014 hPa
Clouds
42 %
Storm
Moderate
Rise 06:05 Set 17:36 Day 11 h 31 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
28°27°
Feels like 37°
Wind ↑ SE 13 km/h
Humidity 69 %
💧 3.0 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
25°23°
Feels like 35°
Wind ↑ E 6 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 3.6 mm
⚡ storm
16:00
Rain showers
28°
1.5mm
SSE 7

Kingston 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)
19°22°26°29°32°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed28°21°Thu 29 Oct: max 29° · min 24° · normal 25.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 22° · normal 25.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 30° · min 22° · normal 25.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 22° · normal 25.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 28° · min 21° · normal 25.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 25° · min 21° · normal 25.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 28° · min 21° · normal 25.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu20°26°32°30°21°027
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kingston climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 26 °C in January to 30 °C in August, and the coolest nights (February) average 22 °C.

From 13 h 12 min of daylight in late June to 11 h 03 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 950 mm of rain — less than 53% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan26 °C22 °C36 mm
Feb26 °C22 °C30 mm
Mar27 °C22 °C44 mm
Apr27 °C23 °C49 mm
May28 °C24 °C117 mm
Jun29 °C24 °C83 mm
Jul29 °C25 °C63 mm
Aug30 °C25 °C94 mm
Sep29 °C25 °C138 mm
Oct28 °C24 °C157 mm
Nov28 °C24 °C89 mm
Dec27 °C23 °C52 mm
Whole year28 °C23 °C950 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 18.00° N, 76.79° W, 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 Kingston: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.515µg/m³
PM1017µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kingston

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

No open weather radar covers Kingston yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Kingston

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 18:38 Set 07:37
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 (America/Jamaica); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Kingston

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

Kingston weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kingston, Kingston: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 27 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 29 °C and around 3 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.

Kingston weather data for developers

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations