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District of Columbia · 689,545 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:03

Air: Moderate

9°

Clear sky

Feels like 9°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

5 km/h

Humidity

98 %

Pressure

1026 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 07:32 Set 18:11 Day 10 h 39 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

22°21°

Feels like 23°

Wind ↑ WSW 7 km/h

Humidity 47 %

Evening

Clear sky

16°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ WSW 10 km/h

Gusts 17 km/h

Humidity 80 %

14:00

21°

SSW 7

17:00

22°

WSW 7

Washington forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.4° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Washington climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −1 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 24 °C.

Nights typically freeze in January and February, the coldest averaging −1 °C in January.

From 14 h 53 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 26 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 75 mm and 110 mm on average.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 20 °C, against a usual 20 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	6 °C	−1 °C	81 mm
Feb	8 °C	−1 °C	75 mm
Mar	13 °C	3 °C	101 mm
Apr	19 °C	8 °C	89 mm
May	24 °C	14 °C	97 mm
Jun	28 °C	19 °C	93 mm
Jul	31 °C	22 °C	104 mm
Aug	30 °C	21 °C	93 mm
Sep	26 °C	17 °C	110 mm
Oct	20 °C	11 °C	89 mm
Nov	14 °C	5 °C	76 mm
Dec	8 °C	1 °C	91 mm
Whole year	19 °C	10 °C	1,100 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 38.90° N, 77.04° 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 Washington: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.521µg/m³

PM1023µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Washington

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Washington, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Washington

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 16:33 Set 07:44

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

Look up a past day in Washington

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

Washington weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Washington, District of Columbia: 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 9 °C (feels like 9 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 9 °C to 22 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Baltimore 57 km 11°

Philadelphia 199 km 8°

Virginia Beach 245 km 16°

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