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Kaech’ŏn weather

South Pyongan · 319,554 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:12

Overcast
7°
Overcast
Feels like 7°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
4 km/h
Humidity
95 %
Pressure
1017 hPa
Clouds
94 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:02 Set 17:37 Day 10 h 35 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Overcast
Overcast
7°6°
Feels like 7°
Wind ↑ ESE 4 km/h
Humidity 95 %
Morning
Clear sky
Clear sky
6°5°
Feels like 5°
Wind ↑ ESE 6 km/h
Humidity 98 %
Afternoon
Rain showers
Rain showers
15°13°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ SW 12 km/h
Gusts 41 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 0.4 mm
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
10°
Feels like 9°
Wind ↑ SW 8 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 1.6 mm
09:00
Clear sky
6°
ESE 6
12:00
Clear sky
13°
SSW 12
15:00
Rain showers
15°
0.4mm
SW 9
18:00
Rain showers
10°
0.8mm
SW 8
21:00
Rain showers
10°
0.8mm
N 3
00:00
Clear sky
5°
NNW 7
03:00
Clear sky
4°
NNW 10
06:00
Clear sky
-1°
NNW 7

Kaech’ŏn 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)
-3°2°7°12°17°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed15°5°Thu 29 Oct: max 10° · min 5° · normal 6.6°Fri 30 Oct: max 15° · min -1° · normal 6.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 10° · min 2° · normal 6.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 6° · min 2° · normal 6.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 10° · min 1° · normal 5.8°Tue 3 Nov: max 13° · min 2° · normal 5.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 15° · min 5° · normal 5.3°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri-3°7°16°15°-1°012
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kaech’ŏn climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −13 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −13 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 32 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 59% of the annual total; July by itself averages 345 mm.

From 14 h 59 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 21 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 12 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−2 °C−13 °C16 mm
Feb2 °C−8 °C26 mm
Mar8 °C−2 °C34 mm
Apr16 °C4 °C66 mm
May22 °C11 °C110 mm
Jun26 °C17 °C139 mm
Jul28 °C21 °C345 mm
Aug29 °C21 °C273 mm
Sep25 °C14 °C113 mm
Oct18 °C7 °C60 mm
Nov9 °C0 °C63 mm
Dec0 °C−9 °C31 mm
Whole year15 °C5 °C1,280 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.70° N, 125.89° 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 Kaech’ŏn: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.510µg/m³
PM1015µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kaech’ŏn

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kaech’ŏn, 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 Kaech’ŏn yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Kaech’ŏn

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:42 Set 06:41
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 Kaech’ŏn

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

Kaech’ŏn weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kaech’ŏn, South Pyongan: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 7 °C (feels like 7 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: -1 °C to 15 °C and around 2 mm of rain. 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.

Kaech’ŏn weather data for developers

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