South Hwanghae

Kwail-ŭp, North Korea Climate

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Kwail-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 August, with an average high of 27°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -4°C. A normal year brings 896 mm of precipitation.

Temperature through the year

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

Normal daily high and low temperature at Kwail-ŭp through the year, in °C, with the record for each date.-20-10010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Normal low
  • Normal high
  • Reanalysis extreme high
  • Reanalysis extreme low

Normals for Sep 25

Normal high
22°C
Normal low
16°C
Reanalysis high
25°Cin 2016
Reanalysis low
13°Cin 1993
Chance of a wet day
26%
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
January1°C-4°C9°C (1995)-14°C (2001)9 mm3.1
February2°C-3°C13°C (1992)-14°C (2013)17 mm2.8
March7°C1°C15°C (2018)-6°C (2005)22 mm3.1
April13°C5°C22°C (2008)-1°C (1993)48 mm6.0
May18°C11°C26°C (2014)4°C (2005)81 mm9.3
June23°C16°C31°C (1999)11°C (2010)93 mm9.0
July26°C21°C33°C (1994)16°C (1996)229 mm15.5
August27°C22°C33°C (2019)16°C (2009)202 mm15.5
September23°C18°C29°C (2019)11°C (2001)84 mm9.0
October18°C12°C26°C (2019)2°C (2010)50 mm6.2
November10°C5°C20°C (2009)-6°C (1992)42 mm6.0
December3°C-1°C13°C (2004)-12°C (2012)19 mm3.1
Year14°C8°C896 mm89

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.

896 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 Kwail-ŭp, in percent.020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
  • Chance of a wet day

Humidity and comfort

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

The muggiest month is August, when 91 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.

MonthDew pointHumidityDryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable
January-6°C74%100%0%0%0%0%0%
February-5°C71%100%0%0%0%0%0%
March-2°C72%100%0%0%0%0%0%
April4°C74%100%0%0%0%0%0%
May9°C74%92%8%0%0%0%0%
June15°C77%14%41%33%11%0%0%
July20°C85%0%2%14%45%36%2%
August21°C85%0%2%6%37%45%9%
September16°C78%16%26%32%22%4%0%
October9°C71%80%15%5%0%0%0%
November3°C74%98%2%0%0%0%0%
December-3°C75%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 March, with the sky 48 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 December, averaging 21.6 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.

Daylight and sunshine

The longest day is Jun 22, with 14 h 52 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 16, with 9 h 29 min.

Hours of daylight at Kwail-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 Kwail-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.