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Sunch’ŏn weather

South Pyongan · 437,000 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:12

Air: Fair

7°

Partly cloudy

Feels like 6°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

95 %

Pressure

1017 hPa

Clouds

81 %

Storm

Rise 07:01 Set 17:38 Day 10 h 36 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Partly cloudy

7°6°

Feels like 6°

Wind ↑ ESE 6 km/h

Humidity 95 %

💧 0.2 mm

Morning

Clear sky

7°6°

Feels like 5°

Wind ↑ SE 8 km/h

Humidity 98 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

16°14°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ SW 14 km/h

Gusts 40 km/h

Humidity 61 %

💧 0.1 mm

Evening

Rain showers

11°10°

Feels like 11°

Wind ↑ WSW 9 km/h

Gusts 20 km/h

Humidity 80 %

💧 0.8 mm

09:00

7°

SE 8

12:00

14°

SSW 12

15:00

16°

0.1mm

SW 14

18:00

11°

0.4mm

WSW 9

21:00

10°

0.4mm

NW 3

00:00

6°

NW 8

03:00

5°

NW 10

06:00

-0°

NW 9

Sunch’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)

Hourly detail

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

Sunch’ŏn climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −12 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −12 °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 330 mm.

From 14 h 57 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 23 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)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−2 °C	−12 °C	16 mm
Feb	3 °C	−7 °C	26 mm
Mar	8 °C	−1 °C	33 mm
Apr	16 °C	5 °C	64 mm
May	22 °C	11 °C	108 mm
Jun	26 °C	17 °C	134 mm
Jul	28 °C	21 °C	330 mm
Aug	28 °C	21 °C	265 mm
Sep	25 °C	15 °C	107 mm
Oct	18 °C	7 °C	56 mm
Nov	9 °C	0 °C	60 mm
Dec	0 °C	−8 °C	31 mm
Whole year	15 °C	6 °C	1,230 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.43° N, 125.93° 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 Sunch’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 Sunch’ŏn

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

Moon over Sunch’ŏn

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 15:43 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 Sunch’ŏn

Curious about the weather in Sunch’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.

Sunch’ŏn weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sunch’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 “partly cloudy”, it is 7 °C (feels like 6 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: -0 °C to 16 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Kaech’ŏn 30 km 7°

Pyongyang 47 km 8°

Man’gyŏngdae-Ri 54 km 8°

Namp’o 90 km 9°

Sariwŏn-Si 104 km 10°

Wŏnsan 134 km 11°

Hamhŭng 148 km 5°

Hŭngnam 152 km 12°

Sunch’ŏn weather data for developers

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