10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
4°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ NE 5 km/h
Humidity 51 %
Afternoon
Overcast
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ SSE 7 km/h
Humidity 60 %
💧 0.1 mm
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
8°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ ESE 3 km/h
Humidity 93 %
Afternoon
Drizzle
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ SW 16 km/h
Humidity 65 %
💧 0.2 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ ENE 1 km/h
Humidity 92 %
Afternoon
Overcast
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ WSW 6 km/h
Humidity 64 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 86 %
Afternoon
Overcast
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ NNW 9 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 0.1 mm
Kaesŏng forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +1.6° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Kaesŏng climate: what a normal year looks like
Ranked against the 88 towns of 20,000+ people in North Korea, Kaesŏng has the highest mean temperature.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −8 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 29 °C.
The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 60% of the annual total; July by itself averages 311 mm.
Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −8 °C in January.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (19 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
1 °C
−8 °C
18 mm
Feb
5 °C
−5 °C
25 mm
Mar
10 °C
0 °C
35 mm
Apr
17 °C
6 °C
65 mm
May
23 °C
13 °C
102 mm
Jun
27 °C
18 °C
136 mm
Jul
28 °C
22 °C
311 mm
Aug
29 °C
22 °C
271 mm
Sep
26 °C
16 °C
119 mm
Oct
19 °C
9 °C
51 mm
Nov
11 °C
2 °C
47 mm
Dec
3 °C
−5 °C
24 mm
Whole year
17 °C
7 °C
1,210 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.97° N, 126.55° 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 Kaesŏng: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.514µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kaesŏng
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kaesŏng, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Kaesŏng yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kaesŏng
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:45 Set 06:31
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/Pyongyang); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kaesŏng
Curious about the weather in Kaesŏng on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kaesŏng weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kaesŏng, Kaesong: 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 8 °C (feels like 8 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.
Expected range today: 6 °C to 18 °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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