Climate and average weather in Kurye

In Kurye, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kurye typically varies from -5°C to 28°C, and is rarely below -11°C or above 33°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kurye for warm-weather activities are from mid April to late June and early September to early November.

Hottest
Aug
28°
Coldest
Jan
-5°
Wettest
Jul
304 mm
Driest
Dec
31 mm
Rain / yr
1449 mm
111 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
46 m
35.2°N
Clearest
Oct
45% cloud

Kurye weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Kurye, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.3 months, from May 21 to September 28, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Kurye is August, with an average high of 28°C and low of 21°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from December 1 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Kurye is January, with an average low of -5°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in April.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-5
Feb6-3
Mar121
Apr186
May2211
Jun2516
Jul2821
Aug2821
Sep2516
Oct209
Nov132
Dec6-3

How hot and cold Kurye really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Kurye feels like about 33°C (around August 1). About 12 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -9°C (around January 22), with roughly 132 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan44-9-5
Feb66-7-3
Mar1212-21
Apr181846
May22221111
Jun25251616
Jul29282121
Aug31282121
Sep25251616
Oct202089
Nov131302
Dec66-6-3

Average hourly temperature in Kurye

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -5°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Kurye weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -5°3253.39.90.0
Feb / -4°425.41.810.70.7
Mar12° / 768.11.611.73.2
Apr18° / 1078.80.212.95.8
May22° / 11°1188.8013.86.9
Jun25° / 16°18611.4014.36.2
Jul28° / 21°30418.5014.14.7
Aug28° / 21°27717.9013.34.7
Sep25° / 16°16110.5012.26.6
Oct20° / 675.3011.17.1
Nov13° / 496.50.210.14.0
Dec / -3°3151.59.70.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Kurye gets about 1449 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.4 months, from around Jun 8 to Sep 20, peaking in July at about 62% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 304 mm over about 19 wet days; December is the driest, with 31 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 9 · 62%Jan 1 · 14%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb205
Mar268
Apr299
May299
Jun3911
Jul5919
Aug5718
Sep3611
Oct185
Nov217
Dec165

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kurye collects about 1449 mm of rain across 111 wet days — roughly 121 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 304 mm, while December is the driest at just 31 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec324276107118186304277161674931
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3253
Feb4252
Mar7682
Apr10790
May11890
Jun186110
Jul304190
Aug277180
Sep161110
Oct6750
Nov4970
Dec3152

Snow in Kurye

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Kurye averages about 9 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 24 to Mar 31 — about 4.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 10 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 31 cm of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonJan 19
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan310
Feb28
Mar27
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec25

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Kurye, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around September 25 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around January 14. The clearest month is October, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 7 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around September 24. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 76% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 27 · 68%Jul 3 · 17%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5050
Feb5248
Mar5248
Apr5248
May4555
Jun2971
Jul2476
Aug3664
Sep4357
Oct6337
Nov6139
Dec5842

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 15, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 9 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.97:435:36
Feb10.77:246:05
Mar11.76:486:32
Apr12.96:046:57
May13.85:317:22
Jun14.35:207:41
Jul14.15:317:40
Aug13.35:547:14
Sep12.26:186:31
Oct11.16:425:48
Nov10.17:125:19
Dec9.77:375:15

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Kurye averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around Sep 26 to Jan 8. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 4 sunny days — about 73% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightOct 2716 daysJul 22 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun5Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct15Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec12Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Kurye, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around June 6 to September 26. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 27 to June 5, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 2 · 100%Aug 6 · 0%oppressivedryhumidcomfortablemuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar10000000
Apr9641000
May74196100
Jun1729321660
Jul021334492
Aug031230514
Sep2423271880
Oct8595100
Nov9820000
Dec10000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Kurye is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeFeb 3 · 9 km/hJun 14 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr8calm
May7calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Kurye

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Kurye sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Kurye's rainy season runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Pacific typhoon
Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Kurye

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Kurye throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late April, Kurye is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Kurye for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid April to late June and again from early September to early November, with a peak score in the second week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 10 · 7.4

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.8poor
Mar3.2poor
Apr5.8good
May6.9good
Jun6.2good
Jul4.7fair
Aug4.8fair
Sep6.6good
Oct7.1good
Nov4.0fair
Dec0.7poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Kurye for hot-weather activities is from mid May to early October, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 3 · 6.2

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Kurye, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 28°C), the essentials are light clothes and rain gear. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Kurye sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. About 18 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Kurye

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 67 km away) is warmest in August at about 26°C and coldest in February near 12°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jun 20 to Oct 22 — about 4.1 months when the water holds above 20°C.

10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan13Bracing
Feb12Bracing
Mar12Bracing
Apr13Bracing
May16Cool
Jun20Cool
Jul23Refreshing
Aug26Warm
Sep24Warm
Oct21Refreshing
Nov17Cool
Dec14Bracing

UV index (midday) in Kurye by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Kurye peaks around August 19 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 23 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highModerateAug 19UV 8Dec 23UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7High
May8Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kurye

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 7.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb30
Mar5.50
Apr73
May7.54.5
Jun84.5
Jul7.54.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep74
Oct5.50
Nov30
Dec00

Air quality in Kurye by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Kurye is worst in March — around 57 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.0× the cleanest month (July, 28 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorPoorModeratePoorMar 1856 µg/m³Jul 2229 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan42Poor
Feb47Poor
Mar57Unhealthy
Apr49Poor
May42Poor
Jun38Poor
Jul28Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep37Poor
Oct40Poor
Nov44Poor
Dec39Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Kurye typically lasts about 258 days, from around March 14 to November 26 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 12 to November 3.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 610%Mar 1450%Apr 1290%Nov 390%Nov 2650%Dec 3110%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan931
Feb1728
Mar5531
Apr9112
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov7126
Dec2131

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Kurye banks about 1,931 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,5002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr53
May211
Jun327
Jul441
Aug455
Sep309
Oct132
Nov2
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Kurye receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.5 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 3 to Sep 14. The brightest month is May, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 56% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 275.9 kWhDec 122.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.8Moderate
Feb3.7Moderate
Mar4.7Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul4.5Bright
Aug4.5Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct3.9Moderate
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.5Moderate

Where is Kurye?

Kurye sits at 35.2°N, 127.5°E, 46 m above sea level, in South Korea. The nearest listed city is Nangen, 23 km away.

GwangyangBeolgyoDamyangHwasun

Topography around Kurye

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Kurye.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kurye has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 469 m around an average of 90 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,719 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,875 m.

The land around Kurye is covered by trees (40%) and cropland (36%) within 3 km, trees (86%) within 16 km, and trees (68%) within 80 km.

3 km
469 m
16 km
1,719 m
80 km
1,875 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Nangen 23 km · Kwangyang 28 km · Suncheon 29 km · Hadong 30 km · Gwangyang 36 km · Beolgyo 42 km · Damyang 45 km · Hwasun 46 km

South Korea travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 57% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$36,227
2025
Happiness
6.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
99%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.5
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
8.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 522
Religion
none 60%Protestant 17%Buddhist 16%Catholic 6%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Kurye (35.2094°, 127.4644°, elevation 46 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).