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Skopje weather

Grad Skopje · 474,889 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:14

Partly cloudy
15°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 15°C
Wind
9 km/h
Gusts
23 km/h
Humidity
54 %
Pressure
1020 hPa
Clouds
74 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:03 Set 16:32 Day 10 h 29 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
13°12°
Feels like 13°
Wind ↑ WSW 6 km/h
Gusts 13 km/h
Humidity 63 %
19:00
Overcast
13°
WSW 6
22:00
Overcast
12°
WSW 5

Skopje 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)
5°8°11°14°17°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed12°8°Thu 29 Oct: max 16° · min 11° · normal 11.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 15° · min 11° · normal 11.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 15° · min 9° · normal 11.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 13° · min 11° · normal 11.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 13° · min 12° · normal 10.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 12° · min 7° · normal 10.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 12° · min 8° · normal 10.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu4°10°16°15°6°015
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Skopje climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −3 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −3 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 23 °C.

From 15 h 14 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 07 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 620 mm of rain — less than 81% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

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

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan5 °C−3 °C52 mm
Feb8 °C−1 °C51 mm
Mar13 °C3 °C63 mm
Apr18 °C7 °C66 mm
May22 °C11 °C59 mm
Jun27 °C15 °C46 mm
Jul31 °C17 °C31 mm
Aug31 °C17 °C29 mm
Sep25 °C12 °C39 mm
Oct19 °C8 °C55 mm
Nov12 °C3 °C58 mm
Dec7 °C0 °C66 mm
Whole year18 °C7 °C620 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 42.00° N, 21.43° 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 Skopje: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.518µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
O₃35µg/m³
NO₂8µg/m³
SO₂6µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Skopje

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

Moon over Skopje

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:28 Set 21:09
Fri 30/10 79%
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

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Skopje); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Skopje

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

Skopje weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Skopje, Grad Skopje: 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 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °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.

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