North Hamgyong

Myŏnggan-dong, North Korea Climate

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Myŏnggan-dong, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

The warmest month is July, with an average high of 25°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -12°C. A normal year brings 680 mm of precipitation.

Temperature through the year

The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.

Normal daily high and low temperature at Myŏnggan-dong through the year, in °C, with the record for each date.-40-2002040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Normal low
  • Normal high
  • Reanalysis extreme high
  • Reanalysis extreme low

Normals for Oct 2

Normal high
18°C
Normal low
9°C
Reanalysis high
23°Cin 2008
Reanalysis low
2°Cin 2011
Chance of a wet day
19%
Daylight
11 h 44 min

Month by month

Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.

MonthAvg highAvg lowWarmestColdestPrecipitationWet days
January-3°C-12°C5°C (1995)-25°C (2001)16 mm3.1
February-1°C-10°C12°C (1992)-21°C (2001)14 mm2.8
March5°C-5°C20°C (2018)-16°C (2004)19 mm3.1
April12°C2°C27°C (2015)-8°C (2012)36 mm6.0
May18°C8°C32°C (2017)-1°C (2005)68 mm9.3
June22°C13°C31°C (2002)6°C (1998)75 mm12.0
July25°C17°C34°C (2018)11°C (1996)140 mm15.5
August25°C18°C36°C (2018)9°C (2017)136 mm15.5
September21°C12°C29°C (1999)3°C (2014)84 mm9.0
October15°C5°C24°C (2006)-5°C (2002)40 mm6.2
November6°C-2°C20°C (2003)-15°C (1992)33 mm6.0
December-1°C-9°C11°C (2004)-23°C (2012)19 mm3.1
Year12°C3°C680 mm92

Precipitation

Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

680 mm in a normal year, most in July.

Chance of a wet day

The chance of at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis on each date at Myŏnggan-dong, in percent.0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Chance of a wet day

Humidity and comfort

NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Myŏnggan-dong.

The muggiest month is August, when 34 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.

MonthDew pointHumidityDryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable
January-13°C74%100%0%0%0%0%0%
February-11°C69%100%0%0%0%0%0%
March-7°C63%100%0%0%0%0%0%
April-1°C61%100%0%0%0%0%0%
May5°C64%100%0%0%0%0%0%
June11°C72%67%30%4%0%0%0%
July16°C78%8%30%38%23%1%0%
August17°C80%7%23%36%31%3%0%
September11°C73%68%23%7%1%0%0%
October3°C68%100%0%0%0%0%0%
November-4°C69%100%0%0%0%0%0%
December-11°C73%100%0%0%0%0%0%

Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.

Clouds

Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.

The clearest month is January, with the sky 47 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is June, at 76 percent.

Wind

The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.

The windiest month is February, averaging 12.6 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.

Daylight and sunshine

The longest day is Jun 19, with 15 h 09 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 21, with 9 h 12 min.

Hours of daylight at Myŏnggan-dong through the year.0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Day length

Solar energy

Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.

Sunrise and sunset calendar

Month pages

The weather in Myŏnggan-dong in each month, day by day.

What this means

A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.

Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.

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Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.