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Irkutsk Oblast · 623,869 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:03

Clear sky
-12°
Clear sky
Feels like -12°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
2 km/h
Humidity
79 %
Pressure
1030 hPa
Clouds
7 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:54 Set 17:38 Day 9 h 44 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Clear sky
Clear sky
-12°-15°
Feels like -12°
Wind ↑ SE 4 km/h
Humidity 79 %
Morning
Clear sky
Clear sky
-8°-11°
Feels like -12°
Wind ↑ ESE 8 km/h
Gusts 14 km/h
Humidity 66 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
-3°-4°
Feels like -8°
Wind ↑ ESE 12 km/h
Humidity 61 %
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
-4°-6°
Feels like -8°
Wind ↑ SE 13 km/h
Gusts 20 km/h
Humidity 74 %
08:00
Clear sky
-11°
E 8
11:00
Clear sky
-8°
ESE 8
14:00
Mainly clear
-3°
ESE 12
17:00
Partly cloudy
-4°
SSE 7
20:00
Partly cloudy
-4°
SE 13
23:00
Overcast
-6°
ESE 5
02:00
Overcast
-4°
SE 8
05:00
Light snow
-5°
0.4mm
E 4

Irkutsk forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▼ This week runs -3.0° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-19°-14°-9°-3°2°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed-7°-17°Thu 29 Oct: max -4° · min -15° · normal -3.5°Fri 30 Oct: max -3° · min -11° · normal -3.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 0° · min -5° · normal -4.2°Sun 1 Nov: max -1° · min -14° · normal -4.2°Mon 2 Nov: max -5° · min -9° · normal -4.5°Tue 3 Nov: max -3° · min -9° · normal -4.8°Wed 4 Nov: max -7° · min -17° · normal -5.1°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri-18°-8°2°0°-17°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Irkutsk climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from October to April, the coldest averaging −25 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −25 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 39 °C.

From 16 h 47 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 41 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 490 mm of rain — less than 87% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average −3 °C, 10 °C cooler than a normal October (7 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−16 °C−25 °C11 mm
Feb−10 °C−21 °C10 mm
Mar0 °C−12 °C15 mm
Apr9 °C−2 °C26 mm
May17 °C5 °C42 mm
Jun22 °C10 °C68 mm
Jul23 °C14 °C95 mm
Aug21 °C13 °C101 mm
Sep14 °C6 °C63 mm
Oct7 °C−2 °C26 mm
Nov−5 °C−12 °C18 mm
Dec−13 °C−21 °C16 mm
Whole year6 °C−4 °C490 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 52.30° N, 104.29° 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 Irkutsk: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.50µg/m³
PM100µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Irkutsk

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Irkutsk, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Irkutsk yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Irkutsk

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 17:09 Set 10:17
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/Irkutsk); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Irkutsk

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

Irkutsk weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is -12 °C (feels like -12 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: -11 °C to -3 °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