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Montevideo Department · 1,270,737 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 14:43

Air: Fair Low storm risk · Fri

17°

Overcast

Feels like 17°C

Wind

8 km/h

Gusts

9 km/h

Humidity

69 %

Pressure

1019 hPa

Clouds

96 %

Storm

Rise 05:45 Set 19:11 Day 13 h 26 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Overcast

17°16°

Feels like 17°

Wind ↑ E 21 km/h

Humidity 69 %

💧 0.2 mm

Evening

Clear sky

17°16°

Feels like 17°

Wind ↑ ENE 28 km/h

Gusts 39 km/h

Humidity 86 %

15:00

16°

0.1mm

E 21

18:00

16°

E 28

Montevideo forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

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

Hourly detail

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

Montevideo climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 23 towns of 20,000+ people in Uruguay, Montevideo has the third lowest yearly rainfall.

The hottest stretch is January, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 7 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 79 mm and 117 mm on average.

From 9 h 48 min of daylight in late June to 14 h 30 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)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	27 °C	19 °C	79 mm
Feb	27 °C	18 °C	102 mm
Mar	25 °C	17 °C	100 mm
Apr	21 °C	14 °C	104 mm
May	18 °C	11 °C	85 mm
Jun	15 °C	9 °C	84 mm
Jul	14 °C	7 °C	88 mm
Aug	16 °C	9 °C	96 mm
Sep	17 °C	9 °C	88 mm
Oct	20 °C	13 °C	117 mm
Nov	24 °C	14 °C	103 mm
Dec	26 °C	17 °C	83 mm
Whole year	21 °C	13 °C	1,130 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 34.90° S, 56.19° 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 Montevideo: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.511µg/m³

PM1015µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Montevideo

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

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

Moon over Montevideo

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 17:23 Set 02:01

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

Look up a past day in Montevideo

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

Montevideo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Montevideo, Montevideo Department: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 17 °C (feels like 17 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 13 °C to 17 °C and around 1 mm of rain; 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.

Other big cities nearby

Avellaneda 201 km 17°

Buenos Aires 213 km 18°

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