Kowŏn-ŭp, North Korea Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 26°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -14°C. A normal year brings 1034 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 25
- Normal high
- 20°C
- Normal low
- 10°C
- Reanalysis high
- 25°Cin 2006
- Reanalysis low
- 6°Cin 2018
- Chance of a wet day
- 27%
- 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.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4°C | -14°C | 5°C (2002) | -29°C (2001) | 12 mm | 3.1 |
| February | 0°C | -11°C | 15°C (2010) | -30°C (2013) | 17 mm | 2.8 |
| March | 6°C | -5°C | 18°C (2014) | -19°C (2007) | 25 mm | 6.2 |
| April | 14°C | 1°C | 27°C (2015) | -7°C (2012) | 51 mm | 6.0 |
| May | 20°C | 7°C | 33°C (2014) | -1°C (1995) | 81 mm | 9.3 |
| June | 25°C | 13°C | 35°C (2000) | 5°C (1992) | 108 mm | 12.0 |
| July | 26°C | 17°C | 38°C (1997) | 9°C (1996) | 279 mm | 18.6 |
| August | 25°C | 18°C | 36°C (1997) | 9°C (2009) | 233 mm | 15.5 |
| September | 21°C | 12°C | 29°C (2002) | 1°C (2008) | 108 mm | 9.0 |
| October | 15°C | 4°C | 26°C (2019) | -6°C (1996) | 50 mm | 6.2 |
| November | 6°C | -3°C | 18°C (2014) | -20°C (2013) | 48 mm | 6.0 |
| December | -1°C | -11°C | 8°C (2002) | -27°C (2012) | 22 mm | 3.1 |
| Year | 13°C | 2°C | 1034 mm | 98 |
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.
1034 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 Kowŏn-ŭp.
The muggiest month is August, when 56 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 | -12°C | 81% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -10°C | 76% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -5°C | 70% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 0°C | 68% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 7°C | 69% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 13°C | 74% | 43% | 39% | 16% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 18°C | 84% | 2% | 14% | 35% | 31% | 17% | 0% |
| August | 19°C | 87% | 2% | 9% | 32% | 34% | 22% | 0% |
| September | 13°C | 82% | 46% | 32% | 18% | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 5°C | 77% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | -2°C | 79% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -10°C | 81% | 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 October, with the sky 51 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 75 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 March, averaging 16.6 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 21, with 14 h 58 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 18, with 9 h 23 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 Kowŏn-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.