Sakchu-ŭp, North Korea Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 27°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -17°C. A normal year brings 988 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 30
- Normal high
- 19°C
- Normal low
- 8°C
- Reanalysis high
- 25°Cin 2019
- Reanalysis low
- 1°Cin 2014
- Chance of a wet day
- 22%
- Daylight
- 11 h 49 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.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -5°C | -17°C | 5°C (2017) | -34°C (2001) | 6 mm | 3.1 |
| February | -1°C | -13°C | 11°C (1992) | -28°C (2013) | 17 mm | 2.8 |
| March | 6°C | -5°C | 18°C (2014) | -27°C (2007) | 22 mm | 3.1 |
| April | 14°C | 1°C | 27°C (2015) | -6°C (2000) | 48 mm | 6.0 |
| May | 21°C | 8°C | 33°C (1996) | -1°C (2014) | 81 mm | 9.3 |
| June | 26°C | 14°C | 36°C (1999) | 5°C (2009) | 114 mm | 12.0 |
| July | 27°C | 19°C | 37°C (2000) | 11°C (2015) | 260 mm | 18.6 |
| August | 26°C | 18°C | 34°C (2018) | 7°C (2017) | 245 mm | 15.5 |
| September | 22°C | 12°C | 29°C (1994) | 1°C (2014) | 84 mm | 9.0 |
| October | 15°C | 3°C | 26°C (2019) | -7°C (2016) | 53 mm | 6.2 |
| November | 5°C | -5°C | 18°C (2009) | -21°C (1993) | 42 mm | 6.0 |
| December | -3°C | -14°C | 8°C (2008) | -27°C (1993) | 16 mm | 3.1 |
| Year | 13°C | 2°C | 988 mm | 95 |
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.
988 mm in a normal year, most in July.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Sakchu-ŭp.
The muggiest month is August, when 65 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -14°C | 81% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -11°C | 75% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -6°C | 68% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 1°C | 66% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 8°C | 67% | 96% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 14°C | 72% | 30% | 41% | 26% | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 19°C | 81% | 2% | 7% | 32% | 38% | 21% | 1% |
| August | 19°C | 83% | 2% | 7% | 26% | 37% | 26% | 2% |
| September | 13°C | 78% | 48% | 27% | 20% | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 4°C | 74% | 97% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | -4°C | 77% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -12°C | 80% | 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 38 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, 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 April, averaging 15.8 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 18, with 15 h 04 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 18, with 9 h 17 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Sakchu-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 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.