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Chongjin weather

North Hamgyong · 327,000 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:13

Air: Good

9°

Clear sky

Feels like 9°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

56 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 06:50 Set 17:18 Day 10 h 28 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Clear sky

9°8°

Feels like 9°

Wind ↑ NW 9 km/h

Humidity 56 %

Morning

Clear sky

9°8°

Feels like 9°

Wind ↑ NW 8 km/h

Humidity 68 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

14°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ S 14 km/h

Humidity 62 %

Evening

Clear sky

12°

Feels like 12°

Wind ↑ NW 16 km/h

Gusts 36 km/h

Humidity 61 %

09:00

9°

WSW 5

12:00

14°

SSE 9

15:00

14°

S 14

18:00

12°

NW 9

21:00

12°

NW 16

00:00

6°

NNW 35

03:00

6°

NNW 21

06:00

2°

NW 15

Chongjin 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)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Chongjin climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −11 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −11 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 29 °C.

From 15 h 13 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 08 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 10 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (15 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−4 °C	−11 °C	41 mm
Feb	−1 °C	−9 °C	29 mm
Mar	4 °C	−4 °C	37 mm
Apr	10 °C	3 °C	56 mm
May	15 °C	9 °C	100 mm
Jun	18 °C	13 °C	112 mm
Jul	22 °C	18 °C	196 mm
Aug	24 °C	19 °C	218 mm
Sep	20 °C	15 °C	120 mm
Oct	15 °C	8 °C	59 mm
Nov	7 °C	0 °C	60 mm
Dec	−1 °C	−8 °C	57 mm
Whole year	11 °C	4 °C	1,080 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 41.80° N, 129.78° 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 Chongjin: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.510µg/m³

PM1015µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Chongjin

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

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

Moon over Chongjin

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 15:17 Set 06:33

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

Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Pyongyang); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Chongjin

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

Chongjin weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Chongjin, North Hamgyong: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 9 °C (feels like 9 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 2 °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