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Donetsk · 901,645 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:51

Mainly clear
12°
Mainly clear
Feels like 12°C
Wind
17 km/h
Gusts
46 km/h
Humidity
38 %
Pressure
1022 hPa
Clouds
37 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:09 Set 16:15 Day 10 h 6 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
12°11°
Feels like 12°
Wind ↑ E 17 km/h
Gusts 46 km/h
Humidity 38 %
20:00
Mainly clear
12°
E 17
23:00
Mainly clear
11°
E 17

Donetsk forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +5.2° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
3°7°11°14°18°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed13°6°Thu 29 Oct: max 16° · min 11° · normal 6.3°Fri 30 Oct: max 14° · min 7° · normal 6.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 13° · min 9° · normal 5.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 12° · min 9° · normal 5.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 13° · min 6° · normal 5.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 15° · min 8° · normal 5.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 13° · min 6° · normal 5.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu0°8°16°15°2°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Donetsk climate: what a normal year looks like

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

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −7 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 27 °C.

From 16 h 03 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 22 min in late December.

A normal year brings roughly 580 mm of rain — less than 83% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 14 °C, against a usual 14 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−2 °C−7 °C49 mm
Feb0 °C−6 °C42 mm
Mar6 °C−1 °C48 mm
Apr15 °C5 °C49 mm
May21 °C11 °C62 mm
Jun25 °C15 °C66 mm
Jul28 °C17 °C51 mm
Aug28 °C16 °C35 mm
Sep21 °C11 °C44 mm
Oct14 °C5 °C43 mm
Nov5 °C−1 °C42 mm
Dec0 °C−5 °C49 mm
Whole year13 °C5 °C580 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 48.02° N, 37.80° 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 Donetsk: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1011µg/m³
O₃69µg/m³
NO₂2µg/m³
SO₂7µg/m³

Pollen · dominant: Grass

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassLow
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Donetsk

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

Moon over Donetsk

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 01:47 Set 19:34
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/Kyiv); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Donetsk

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

Donetsk weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Donetsk, Donetsk: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 12 °C (feels like 12 °C) and the wind blows at 17 km/h.

Expected range today: 11 °C to 16 °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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations