11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
2°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ S 3 km/h
Humidity 89 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
7°
Feels like 5°
Wind↑ NNE 8 km/h
Humidity 61 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
-1°
Feels like -1°
Wind↑ NE 5 km/h
Humidity 91 %
Afternoon
Overcast
5°
Feels like 4°
Wind↑ N 6 km/h
Humidity 61 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
2°
Feels like 1°
Wind↑ E 5 km/h
Humidity 83 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
9°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ N 5 km/h
Humidity 59 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
5°
Feels like 5°
Wind↑ SW 5 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain
7°
Feels like 6°
Wind↑ E 6 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 95 %
💧 8.0 mm
Zuerich forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▼ This week runs -2.3° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Zuerich climate: what a normal year looks like
From 15 h 57 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 27 min in late December.
Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −2 °C in January.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −2 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 18 °C.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 83 mm and 140 mm on average.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 8 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
4 °C
−2 °C
92 mm
Feb
6 °C
−1 °C
83 mm
Mar
10 °C
2 °C
97 mm
Apr
14 °C
5 °C
101 mm
May
17 °C
9 °C
140 mm
Jun
22 °C
13 °C
137 mm
Jul
23 °C
15 °C
137 mm
Aug
24 °C
15 °C
137 mm
Sep
18 °C
11 °C
113 mm
Oct
14 °C
8 °C
99 mm
Nov
8 °C
3 °C
103 mm
Dec
4 °C
0 °C
107 mm
Whole year
14 °C
6 °C
1,350 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 47.37° N, 8.55° 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 Zuerich: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.511µg/m³
PM1014µg/m³
O₃35µg/m³
NO₂12µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³
Pollen
AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Zuerich
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Zuerich, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over Zuerich
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:54 Set 22:31
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Europe/Zurich); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Zuerich
Curious about the weather in Zuerich on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Zuerich weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Zuerich, Zurich: 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 7 °C (feels like 6 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.
Expected range today: 7 °C to 10 °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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