North Hamgyong

Puryŏng-ŭp, North Korea Climate

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Puryŏng-ŭp, 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 24°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -19°C. A normal year brings 716 mm of precipitation.

Temperature through the year

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

Normal daily high and low temperature at Puryŏng-ŭp 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 Sep 25

Normal high
17°C
Normal low
6°C
Reanalysis high
22°Cin 2006
Reanalysis low
2°Cin 2013
Chance of a wet day
25%
Daylight
12 h 03 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-9°C-19°C3°C (1995)-34°C (2001)9 mm3.1
February-5°C-17°C10°C (1992)-29°C (2001)11 mm2.8
March2°C-10°C19°C (2018)-24°C (2004)19 mm3.1
April11°C-2°C27°C (1998)-14°C (1991)39 mm6.0
May18°C5°C31°C (2014)-7°C (2005)81 mm12.4
June22°C10°C32°C (2014)3°C (1998)96 mm15.0
July24°C14°C35°C (2018)7°C (1993)152 mm18.6
August24°C14°C35°C (2018)5°C (2009)152 mm15.5
September19°C8°C30°C (1997)-4°C (2014)78 mm9.0
October12°C0°C23°C (2019)-11°C (2016)37 mm6.2
November2°C-9°C18°C (2003)-24°C (1992)30 mm6.0
December-7°C-17°C6°C (2004)-31°C (2012)12 mm3.1
Year9°C-2°C716 mm101

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.

716 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 Puryŏng-ŭp, in percent.020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Chance of a wet day

Humidity and comfort

NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Puryŏng-ŭp.

The muggiest month is August, when 9 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.

MonthDew pointHumidityDryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable
January-17°C84%100%0%0%0%0%0%
February-15°C78%100%0%0%0%0%0%
March-10°C69%100%0%0%0%0%0%
April-4°C61%100%0%0%0%0%0%
May3°C65%100%0%0%0%0%0%
June10°C73%84%14%1%0%0%0%
July15°C79%22%40%30%8%0%0%
August15°C81%22%34%35%9%0%0%
September8°C75%89%9%2%0%0%0%
October-1°C71%100%0%0%0%0%0%
November-8°C75%100%0%0%0%0%0%
December-15°C83%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 39 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 72 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 January, averaging 17.6 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.

Daylight and sunshine

The longest day is Jun 21, with 15 h 16 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 20, with 9 h 06 min.

Hours of daylight at Puryŏng-ŭp 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 Puryŏng-ŭp 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 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.