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Albuquerque weather

New Mexico · 564,559 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:08

Clear sky
18°
Clear sky
Feels like 18°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
5 km/h
Humidity
44 %
Pressure
1019 hPa
Clouds
11 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:25 Set 18:15 Day 10 h 50 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
20°18°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ S 7 km/h
Humidity 22 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
20°18°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ ENE 6 km/h
Humidity 34 %
15:00
Mainly clear
20°
S 7

Albuquerque forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
4°9°13°18°22°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed16°7°Thu 29 Oct: max 20° · min 10° · normal 10.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 20° · min 11° · normal 10.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 19° · min 11° · normal 10.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 13° · normal 10.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 15° · min 11° · normal 9.8°Tue 3 Nov: max 15° · min 6° · normal 9.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 16° · min 7° · normal 9.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu3°13°22°20°5°017
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Albuquerque climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 280 mm of rain — less than 95% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Day and night differ most in June: 31 °C in the afternoon against 16 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average −4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 23 °C.

From 14 h 31 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 47 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 18 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (20 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan8 °C−4 °C19 mm
Feb10 °C−2 °C18 mm
Mar16 °C2 °C20 mm
Apr20 °C6 °C17 mm
May25 °C11 °C19 mm
Jun31 °C16 °C14 mm
Jul31 °C19 °C40 mm
Aug30 °C17 °C35 mm
Sep27 °C14 °C30 mm
Oct20 °C8 °C29 mm
Nov13 °C1 °C18 mm
Dec7 °C−4 °C22 mm
Whole year20 °C7 °C280 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 35.08° N, 106.65° W, 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 Albuquerque: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.52µg/m³
PM102µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Albuquerque

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

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 20:52 Set 11:33
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 (America/Denver); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Albuquerque

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

Albuquerque weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Albuquerque, New Mexico: 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 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 10 °C to 20 °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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