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Pyongyang · 3,222,000 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:12

Air: Good

8°

Drizzle

Feels like 7°C

Wind

10 km/h

Gusts

17 km/h

Humidity

94 %

Pressure

1016 hPa

Clouds

71 %

Storm

Rise 07:01 Set 17:39 Day 10 h 37 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Rain showers

8°7°

Feels like 7°

Wind ↑ SE 10 km/h

Gusts 17 km/h

Humidity 94 %

💧 0.6 mm

Morning

Clear sky

8°

Feels like 6°

Wind ↑ SSE 13 km/h

Humidity 95 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

19°18°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ SW 21 km/h

Gusts 34 km/h

Humidity 49 %

Evening

Rain showers

14°13°

Feels like 14°

Wind ↑ W 14 km/h

Gusts 35 km/h

Humidity 70 %

💧 0.8 mm

09:00

8°

SSE 13

12:00

18°

SW 21

15:00

19°

SW 19

18:00

14°

0.4mm

W 14

21:00

13°

0.4mm

W 8

00:00

9°

NW 19

03:00

7°

NW 14

06:00

4°

NW 20

Pyongyang 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)

Pyongyang climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −9 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 30 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −9 °C in January.

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 59% of the annual total; July by itself averages 276 mm.

From 14 h 54 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 25 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 14 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (19 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−1 °C	−9 °C	15 mm
Feb	3 °C	−6 °C	22 mm
Mar	9 °C	−1 °C	28 mm
Apr	17 °C	6 °C	56 mm
May	23 °C	12 °C	97 mm
Jun	27 °C	18 °C	115 mm
Jul	29 °C	22 °C	276 mm
Aug	29 °C	22 °C	226 mm
Sep	26 °C	16 °C	93 mm
Oct	19 °C	9 °C	45 mm
Nov	10 °C	1 °C	48 mm
Dec	1 °C	−7 °C	27 mm
Whole year	16 °C	7 °C	1,050 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.03° N, 125.75° 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 Pyongyang: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.58µg/m³

PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Pyongyang

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

Moon over Pyongyang

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 15:45 Set 06:39

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 Pyongyang

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

Pyongyang weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Pyongyang, Pyongyang: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 8 °C (feels like 7 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 4 °C to 19 °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