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Seoul · 10,349,312 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:15

Overcast
12°
Overcast
Feels like 12°C
Wind
5 km/h
Gusts
12 km/h
Humidity
52 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
97 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:54 Set 17:36 Day 10 h 42 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Overcast
Overcast
12°9°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ SSE 6 km/h
Gusts 12 km/h
Humidity 52 %
Morning
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
12°10°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ SE 5 km/h
Humidity 56 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
Clear sky
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind ↑ WSW 14 km/h
Gusts 30 km/h
Humidity 48 %
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
17°13°
Feels like 17°
Wind ↑ SSW 17 km/h
Gusts 33 km/h
Humidity 53 %
💧 0.4 mm
09:00
Clear sky
10°
SE 5
12:00
Clear sky
18°
WSW 14
15:00
Clear sky
18°
WSW 14
18:00
Clear sky
17°
WSW 17
21:00
Rain showers
13°
0.4mm
SSW 10
00:00
Clear sky
14°
W 12
03:00
Clear sky
11°
WNW 6
06:00
Clear sky
10°
WNW 13

Seoul forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.0° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
2°7°11°16°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed17°7°Thu 29 Oct: max 12° · min 9° · normal 9.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 18° · min 10° · normal 9.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 14° · min 7° · normal 9.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 10° · min 7° · normal 9.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 14° · min 4° · normal 8.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 17° · min 7° · normal 8.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 17° · min 7° · normal 8.4°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri3°12°20°18°4°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Seoul climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −7 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 29 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −7 °C in January.

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 58% of the annual total; July by itself averages 316 mm.

From 14 h 45 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 34 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan1 °C−7 °C21 mm
Feb5 °C−4 °C28 mm
Mar10 °C0 °C39 mm
Apr17 °C6 °C72 mm
May23 °C13 °C99 mm
Jun27 °C18 °C137 mm
Jul28 °C22 °C316 mm
Aug29 °C22 °C260 mm
Sep26 °C17 °C124 mm
Oct20 °C9 °C55 mm
Nov12 °C2 °C49 mm
Dec4 °C−5 °C25 mm
Whole year17 °C8 °C1,220 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.57° N, 126.98° 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 Seoul: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.532µg/m³
PM1034µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Seoul

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

Moon over Seoul

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 15:45 Set 06:28
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 Seoul

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

Seoul weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Seoul, Seoul: 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 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.

Expected range today: 10 °C to 18 °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.

Seoul weather data for developers

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