P’yŏngsŏng, North Korea Climate
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Pyongyang International, since 1950. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Oct 1
- Normal high
- 23°C
- Record high
- 28°Cin 1978
- Record low
- 4°Cin 2011
- Chance of a wet day
- 24%
- Daylight
- 11 h 48 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 | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1°C | 12°C (1979) | -26°C (2001) | 9 mm | 3.1 | |
| February | 3°C | 16°C (1977) | -23°C (1986) | 17 mm | 2.8 | |
| March | 9°C | 22°C (2014) | -16°C (1962) | 25 mm | 3.1 | |
| April | 18°C | 29°C (2015) | -5°C (1991) | 51 mm | 6.0 | |
| May | 23°C | 34°C (2001) | 2°C (1966) | 81 mm | 9.3 | |
| June | 27°C | 36°C (1976) | 7°C (1981) | 102 mm | 12.0 | |
| July | 29°C | 37°C (2018) | 11°C (1991) | 295 mm | 18.6 | |
| August | 30°C | 38°C (2018) | 12°C (1974) | 236 mm | 15.5 | |
| September | 26°C | 32°C (1970) | 4°C (1987) | 102 mm | 9.0 | |
| October | 19°C | 30°C (1982) | -6°C (1976) | 47 mm | 6.2 | |
| November | 10°C | 24°C (2023) | -14°C (1977) | 45 mm | 6.0 | |
| December | 1°C | 15°C (1968) | -23°C (1967) | 19 mm | 3.1 | |
| Year | 16°C | 1029 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.
1029 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 P’yŏngsŏng.
The muggiest month is August, when 71 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 | -11°C | 79% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -9°C | 74% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -4°C | 69% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 2°C | 67% | 99% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 8°C | 66% | 93% | 6% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 14°C | 69% | 34% | 38% | 24% | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 20°C | 81% | 1% | 7% | 27% | 34% | 29% | 2% |
| August | 20°C | 84% | 1% | 4% | 23% | 31% | 37% | 3% |
| September | 14°C | 79% | 37% | 29% | 25% | 7% | 2% | 0% |
| October | 6°C | 75% | 94% | 5% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | -1°C | 77% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -9°C | 79% | 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 41 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 April, averaging 14.8 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 18, with 14 h 56 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 18, with 9 h 24 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 P’yŏngsŏng 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.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1950. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
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
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station KNM00047058, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: 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.