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Gothenburg weather

Västra Götaland · 608,462 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:33

Partly cloudy
11°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 11°C
Wind
7 km/h
Gusts
15 km/h
Humidity
94 %
Pressure
1027 hPa
Clouds
64 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:18 Set 16:33 Day 9 h 14 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
12°11°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ W 10 km/h
Gusts 24 km/h
Humidity 91 %
22:00
Partly cloudy
11°
WSW 7

Gothenburg forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-2°2°7°11°15°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed8°0°Thu 29 Oct: max 13° · min 11° · normal 6.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 14° · min 9° · normal 6.6°Sat 31 Oct: max 11° · min 8° · normal 6.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 11° · min 9° · normal 6.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 10° · min 4° · normal 6.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 7° · min 3° · normal 6.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 8° · min 0° · normal 6.1°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-1°7°15°14°0°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Gothenburg climate: what a normal year looks like

From 18 h 05 min of daylight in late June to 6 h 32 min in late December.

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

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 21 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −3 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 53 mm and 120 mm on average.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 11 °C, against a usual 11 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan2 °C−3 °C76 mm
Feb3 °C−3 °C60 mm
Mar5 °C−1 °C53 mm
Apr11 °C3 °C57 mm
May15 °C7 °C74 mm
Jun19 °C10 °C100 mm
Jul21 °C13 °C97 mm
Aug20 °C13 °C120 mm
Sep16 °C10 °C96 mm
Oct11 °C6 °C99 mm
Nov7 °C3 °C78 mm
Dec4 °C0 °C80 mm
Whole year11 °C5 °C990 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 57.71° N, 11.97° 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 Gothenburg: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM108µg/m³
O₃60µg/m³
NO₂6µg/m³
SO₂0µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Gothenburg

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Gothenburg, 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

Moon over Gothenburg

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:03 Set 23:50
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/Stockholm); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Gothenburg

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

Gothenburg weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Gothenburg, Västra Götaland: 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 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 13 °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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