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Makhachkala weather

Dagestan · 596,356 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:05

Partly cloudy
17°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 17°C
Wind
34 km/h
Gusts
68 km/h
Humidity
65 %
Pressure
1021 hPa
Clouds
69 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:20 Set 16:46 Day 10 h 26 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind ↑ SE 30 km/h
Gusts 58 km/h
Humidity 70 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
16°
SE 30
00:00
Partly cloudy
15°
SE 30

Makhachkala forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
8°11°14°17°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed17°12°Thu 29 Oct: max 17° · min 15° · normal 11.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 16° · min 15° · normal 11.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 17° · min 15° · normal 11.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 15° · normal 11.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 17° · min 14° · normal 10.8°Tue 3 Nov: max 17° · min 13° · normal 10.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 17° · min 12° · normal 10.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu11°16°20°18°12°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Makhachkala climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −2 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −2 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 22 °C.

From 15 h 21 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 00 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 580 mm of rain — less than 83% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

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

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan3 °C−2 °C32 mm
Feb3 °C−2 °C33 mm
Mar7 °C2 °C39 mm
Apr13 °C7 °C42 mm
May19 °C12 °C56 mm
Jun24 °C17 °C56 mm
Jul26 °C19 °C53 mm
Aug26 °C19 °C64 mm
Sep21 °C15 °C71 mm
Oct15 °C10 °C54 mm
Nov9 °C4 °C44 mm
Dec4 °C−1 °C32 mm
Whole year14 °C8 °C580 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 42.98° N, 47.50° 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 Makhachkala: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.57µg/m³
PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Makhachkala

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

Moon over Makhachkala

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 00:34 Set 17:26
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/Moscow); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Makhachkala

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

Makhachkala weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Makhachkala, Dagestan: 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 17 °C (feels like 17 °C) and the wind blows at 34 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 17 °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