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Wichita weather

Kansas · 396,119 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 12:09

Air: Good Low storm risk · Tomorrow, Mon

16°

Clear sky

Feels like 16°C

Wind

9 km/h

Gusts

21 km/h

Humidity

90 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 07:51 Set 18:34 Day 10 h 42 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Mainly clear

27°24°

Feels like 31°

Wind ↑ S 18 km/h

Humidity 49 %

Evening

Rain showers

23°22°

Feels like 28°

Wind ↑ S 14 km/h

Gusts 36 km/h

Humidity 64 %

💧 0.2 mm

⚡ storm

13:00

24°

S 12

16:00

27°

S 18

Wichita forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +8.4° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Wichita climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 26 °C.

Nights typically freeze from December to February, the coldest averaging −4 °C in January.

From 14 h 46 min of daylight in late June to 9 h 33 min in late December.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 21 °C, against a usual 21 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	6 °C	−4 °C	29 mm
Feb	8 °C	−2 °C	39 mm
Mar	14 °C	3 °C	72 mm
Apr	20 °C	8 °C	96 mm
May	24 °C	14 °C	143 mm
Jun	30 °C	19 °C	116 mm
Jul	33 °C	21 °C	86 mm
Aug	32 °C	20 °C	87 mm
Sep	27 °C	16 °C	80 mm
Oct	21 °C	9 °C	79 mm
Nov	13 °C	3 °C	45 mm
Dec	7 °C	−3 °C	40 mm
Whole year	20 °C	9 °C	910 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 37.69° N, 97.34° 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 Wichita: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.51µg/m³

PM101µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Wichita

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

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 19:04 Set 10:03

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

Look up a past day in Wichita

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

Wichita weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Wichita, Kansas: 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 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 27 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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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