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Moscow · 10,381,222 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:01

Partly cloudy
12°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 12°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
16 km/h
Humidity
52 %
Pressure
1031 hPa
Clouds
53 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:29 Set 16:57 Day 9 h 27 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
9°7°
Feels like 9°
Wind ↑ SSE 6 km/h
Gusts 14 km/h
Humidity 62 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
7°
SSE 6
00:00
Mainly clear
6°
SSE 4

Moscow forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
0°4°7°11°14°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed4°2°Thu 29 Oct: max 12° · min 4° · normal 2.8°Fri 30 Oct: max 12° · min 5° · normal 2.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 10° · min 3° · normal 2.4°Sun 1 Nov: max 8° · min 5° · normal 2.4°Mon 2 Nov: max 6° · min 5° · normal 2.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 6° · min 3° · normal 1.9°Wed 4 Nov: max 4° · min 2° · normal 1.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-1°6°13°12°0°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Moscow climate: what a normal year looks like

From 17 h 33 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 00 min in late December.

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −10 °C in February.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 24 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −10 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 27 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 39 mm and 81 mm on average.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 8 °C, against a usual 8 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−5 °C−10 °C46 mm
Feb−4 °C−10 °C40 mm
Mar2 °C−5 °C39 mm
Apr10 °C1 °C42 mm
May18 °C8 °C62 mm
Jun22 °C12 °C77 mm
Jul24 °C15 °C81 mm
Aug22 °C12 °C72 mm
Sep16 °C8 °C61 mm
Oct8 °C3 °C64 mm
Nov1 °C−3 °C51 mm
Dec−3 °C−8 °C48 mm
Whole year9 °C2 °C680 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 55.75° N, 37.62° 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 Moscow: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.536µg/m³
PM1052µg/m³
O₃1µg/m³
NO₂39µg/m³
SO₂59µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Moscow

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

Moon over Moscow

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise — Set 19:40
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 Moscow

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

Moscow weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Moscow, Moscow: 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 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 4 °C to 12 °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