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Pohang weather

Gyeongsangbuk-do · 492,041 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:15

Drizzle
11°
Drizzle
Feels like 11°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
7 km/h
Humidity
78 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
100 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:42 Set 17:29 Day 10 h 46 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Drizzle
Drizzle
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind ↑ W 6 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 0.8 mm
Morning
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
13°11°
Feels like 13°
Wind ↑ W 7 km/h
Gusts 14 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 0.2 mm
Afternoon
Clear sky
Clear sky
20°18°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ W 16 km/h
Gusts 28 km/h
Humidity 44 %
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind ↑ W 9 km/h
Humidity 67 %
09:00
Clear sky
13°
0.1mm
W 7
12:00
Clear sky
18°
W 16
15:00
Clear sky
20°
W 13
18:00
Clear sky
13°
W 6
21:00
Clear sky
13°
W 9
00:00
Clear sky
10°
WSW 7
03:00
Clear sky
10°
WSW 11
06:00
Clear sky
8°
W 6

Pohang 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)
2°7°12°17°22°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed17°9°Thu 29 Oct: max 13° · min 11° · normal 12.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 20° · min 8° · normal 12.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 20° · min 6° · normal 11.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 8° · normal 11.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 17° · min 4° · normal 11.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 18° · min 8° · normal 11.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 17° · min 9° · normal 11.1°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri3°12°21°20°4°029
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Pohang climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −3 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 25 °C.

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

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 51% of the annual total; August by itself averages 208 mm.

From 14 h 36 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 42 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 3 °C cooler than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan5 °C−3 °C30 mm
Feb8 °C−1 °C35 mm
Mar12 °C3 °C63 mm
Apr18 °C8 °C76 mm
May22 °C14 °C85 mm
Jun25 °C18 °C126 mm
Jul28 °C23 °C200 mm
Aug29 °C23 °C208 mm
Sep25 °C19 °C158 mm
Oct20 °C12 °C65 mm
Nov15 °C6 °C39 mm
Dec7 °C−1 °C25 mm
Whole year18 °C10 °C1,110 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 36.03° N, 129.36° 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 Pohang: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.510µg/m³
PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Pohang

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

Moon over Pohang

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:40 Set 06:12
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/Seoul); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Pohang

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

Pohang weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Pohang, Gyeongsangbuk-do: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 8 °C to 20 °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.

Pohang weather data for developers

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