Climate averages 1991–2020
Pyongyang weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Pyongyang: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 20.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 219 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 42 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Man’gyŏngdae-ri (9 km away). In August its highs average 28.2°C, about as warm as Pyongyang, with 219 mm of rain.
Among the 38 cities listed in North Korea, Pyongyang ranks joint 12th of 38 for the warmest August highs and joint 22nd of 38 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 38 cities is 27.1°C; Pyongyang is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 24.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 219 mm to 91 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Pyongyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.7°C-9.5°C | -9.5°C | 13 | 3.3 | 9.810 h |
| February | 3.0°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 20 | 3.9 | 10.711 h |
| March | 9.1°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 27 | 4.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.4°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 53 | 6.6 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.2°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 94 | 7.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 107 | 9.8 | 14.915 h |
| July | 27.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 263 | 15.7 | 14.615 h |
| August, selected | 28.1°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 219 | 13.7 | 13.714 h |
| September | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 91 | 6.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 43 | 5.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.1°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 45 | 7.1 | 10.110 h |
| December | 1.4°C-6.7°C | -6.7°C | 23 | 5.5 | 9.59 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Man’gyŏngdae-ri in AugustNorth Korea · 9 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.2°C · 219 mm rain
- Kangsŏn in AugustNorth Korea · 18 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 216 mm rain
- P’yŏngsŏng in AugustNorth Korea · 26 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.8°C · 244 mm rain
- Songnim-ni in AugustNorth Korea · 32 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.3°C · 210 mm rain
- Namp’o in AugustNorth Korea · 45 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.6°C · 205 mm rain
- Sunch’ŏn in AugustNorth Korea · 47 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.6°C · 270 mm rain
- Paek'ak in AugustNorth Korea · 49 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 21.2°C · 227 mm rain
- Chaeryŏng-ni in AugustNorth Korea · 56 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 21.6°C · 193 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Pyongyang) is explained once on the Pyongyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Man’gyŏngdae-ri lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.