Climate averages 1991–2020
Pyongyang weather
in November.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Pyongyang: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 05 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Man’gyŏngdae-ri (9 km away). In November its highs average 9.3°C, about as warm as Pyongyang, with 45 mm of rain.
Among the 38 cities listed in North Korea, Pyongyang ranks 21st of 38 for the warmest November highs and joint 14th of 38 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 38 cities is 8.6°C; Pyongyang is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 7.7°C to 1.4°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 45 mm to 23 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Man’gyŏngdae-ri in NovemberNorth Korea · 9 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 0.6°C · 45 mm rain
- Kangsŏn in NovemberNorth Korea · 18 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.0°C · 45 mm rain
- P’yŏngsŏng in NovemberNorth Korea · 26 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 0.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Songnim-ni in NovemberNorth Korea · 32 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.9°C · 42 mm rain
- Namp’o in NovemberNorth Korea · 45 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.7°C · 42 mm rain
- Sunch’ŏn in NovemberNorth Korea · 47 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -0.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Paek'ak in NovemberNorth Korea · 49 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 0.1°C · 51 mm rain
- Chaeryŏng-ni in NovemberNorth Korea · 56 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 2.0°C · 46 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.