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Wŏnsan weather

Kangwon-do · 329,207 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:13

Air: Good

11°

Overcast

Feels like 11°C

Wind

14 km/h

Gusts

18 km/h

Humidity

75 %

Pressure

1016 hPa

Clouds

96 %

Storm

Rise 06:55 Set 17:32 Day 10 h 37 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Overcast

11°

Feels like 11°

Wind ↑ WSW 16 km/h

Gusts 23 km/h

Humidity 78 %

Morning

Clear sky

11°

Feels like 11°

Wind ↑ WSW 16 km/h

Gusts 32 km/h

Humidity 78 %

Afternoon

Clear sky

18°17°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ WSW 28 km/h

Gusts 38 km/h

Humidity 46 %

Evening

Clear sky

16°14°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ WSW 22 km/h

Gusts 41 km/h

Humidity 52 %

09:00

11°

WSW 16

12:00

17°

WSW 28

15:00

18°

WSW 22

18:00

16°

WSW 22

21:00

14°

W 16

00:00

13°

WSW 23

03:00

12°

W 18

06:00

10°

WNW 21

Wŏnsan forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

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

Wŏnsan climate: what a normal year looks like

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

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −11 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 29 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 53% of the annual total; July by itself averages 273 mm.

From 14 h 55 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 24 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (17 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−1 °C	−11 °C	35 mm
Feb	2 °C	−8 °C	37 mm
Mar	7 °C	−2 °C	47 mm
Apr	15 °C	4 °C	70 mm
May	20 °C	10 °C	103 mm
Jun	23 °C	15 °C	132 mm
Jul	25 °C	19 °C	273 mm
Aug	26 °C	20 °C	262 mm
Sep	22 °C	15 °C	143 mm
Oct	17 °C	7 °C	69 mm
Nov	9 °C	1 °C	71 mm
Dec	1 °C	−8 °C	41 mm
Whole year	14 °C	5 °C	1,280 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 39.15° N, 127.44° 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 Wŏnsan: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.56µg/m³

PM108µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Wŏnsan

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

Moon over Wŏnsan

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 15:37 Set 06:32

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 Wŏnsan

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

Wŏnsan weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Wŏnsan, Kangwon-do: 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 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 10 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Man’gyŏngdae-Ri 155 km 8°

Uijeongbu-Si 161 km 11°

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