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Krakow weather

Lesser Poland · 816,614 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:51

Overcast
8°
Overcast
Feels like 8°C
Wind
3 km/h
Gusts
6 km/h
Humidity
93 %
Pressure
1029 hPa
Clouds
99 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:25 Set 16:22 Day 9 h 57 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
8°
Feels like 8°
Wind ↑ SW 3 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 0.1 mm
19:00
Overcast
8°
0.1mm
W 3
22:00
Overcast
8°
SW 2

Krakow 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)
1°4°7°9°12°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed7°3°Thu 29 Oct: max 9° · min 5° · normal 7.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 9° · min 6° · normal 7.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 10° · min 5° · normal 7.4°Sun 1 Nov: max 8° · min 3° · normal 7.4°Mon 2 Nov: max 6° · min 3° · normal 7.2°Tue 3 Nov: max 8° · min 3° · normal 7.1°Wed 4 Nov: max 7° · min 3° · normal 6.9°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-4°4°11°10°-3°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Krakow climate: what a normal year looks like

From 16 h 22 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 04 min in late December.

Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −4 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 21 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 8 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan0 °C−4 °C51 mm
Feb3 °C−3 °C51 mm
Mar7 °C0 °C58 mm
Apr14 °C5 °C63 mm
May18 °C8 °C95 mm
Jun21 °C12 °C94 mm
Jul24 °C14 °C107 mm
Aug24 °C14 °C80 mm
Sep19 °C10 °C77 mm
Oct14 °C6 °C63 mm
Nov8 °C1 °C52 mm
Dec3 °C−2 °C49 mm
Whole year13 °C5 °C840 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 50.06° N, 19.94° 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 Krakow: pollution and pollen

5/6
Very poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.565µg/m³
PM1071µg/m³
O₃6µg/m³
NO₂36µg/m³
SO₂7µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Krakow

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Krakow, 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

Moon over Krakow

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:48 Set 22:00
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/Warsaw); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Krakow

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

Krakow weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Krakow, Lesser Poland: 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 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 5 °C to 9 °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