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Kaohsiung weather

Takao · 2,737,660 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:06

Rain around 03:06 Air: Poor

26°

Clear sky

Feels like 35°C

Wind

12 km/h

Gusts

14 km/h

Humidity

77 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

15 %

Storm

Rise 06:02 Set 17:22 Day 11 h 20 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Night

Rain showers

25°

Feels like 34°

Wind ↑ N 8 km/h

Humidity 76 %

💧 0.4 mm

Morning

Drizzle

26°

Feels like 34°

Wind ↑ N 9 km/h

Humidity 71 %

💧 0.8 mm

Afternoon

Mainly clear

28°26°

Feels like 36°

Wind ↑ NNW 16 km/h

Humidity 67 %

💧 0.2 mm

Evening

Rain showers

26°

Feels like 35°

Wind ↑ WSW 11 km/h

Humidity 73 %

💧 0.2 mm

08:00

26°

0.7mm

N 9

11:00

26°

0.1mm

WSW 8

14:00

28°

0.1mm

WNW 12

17:00

26°

0.1mm

NNW 16

20:00

26°

0.2mm

NNE 3

23:00

26°

WSW 11

02:00

25°

0.2mm

SSW 1

05:00

27°

E 8

Kaohsiung forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kaohsiung climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 2,040 mm of rain — more than 89% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from May to September; the typical peak is 31 °C in July.

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 56% of the annual total; August by itself averages 431 mm.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 16 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	22 °C	16 °C	40 mm
Feb	24 °C	17 °C	35 mm
Mar	26 °C	19 °C	47 mm
Apr	28 °C	22 °C	95 mm
May	30 °C	25 °C	259 mm
Jun	30 °C	26 °C	368 mm
Jul	31 °C	26 °C	339 mm
Aug	31 °C	26 °C	431 mm
Sep	30 °C	25 °C	235 mm
Oct	29 °C	23 °C	96 mm
Nov	27 °C	21 °C	56 mm
Dec	24 °C	18 °C	45 mm
Whole year	28 °C	22 °C	2,040 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 22.62° N, 120.31° 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 Kaohsiung: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.533µg/m³

PM1038µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kaohsiung

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

No open weather radar covers Kaohsiung yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Kaohsiung

Waning gibbous

79 % illuminated · 19.3 days

Rise 17:56 Set 07:11

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/Taipei); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Kaohsiung

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

Kaohsiung weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kaohsiung, Takao: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 26 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 28 °C and around 1 mm of rain. 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.

Other big cities nearby

Fengshan 5 km 26°

Tainan 43 km 26°

Taichung 174 km 23°

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