Climate and average weather in Yanggu

In Yanggu, the summers are humid, warm, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: late April to early July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Yanggu typically varies from -10°C to 27°C, and is rarely below -18°C or above 31°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 Yanggu for warm-weather activities are from late April to early July and mid August to late October.

Hottest
Aug
27°
Coldest
Jan
-10°
Wettest
Jul
285 mm
Driest
Jan
23 mm
Rain / yr
1144 mm
104 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
192 m
38.1°N
Clearest
Dec
43% cloud

Yanggu is human settlement in South Korea.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Yanggu 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 late April to early July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.5 months, from May 17 to September 30, with daily high temperatures above 21°C. The hottest month of the year in Yanggu is August, with an average high of 27°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from November 30 to February 28, with daily high temperatures below 5°C. The coldest month of the year in Yanggu is January, with an average low of -10°C and high of 0°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in April.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan0-9
Feb3-7
Mar9-1
Apr154
May2110
Jun2415
Jul2619
Aug2720
Sep2315
Oct178
Nov91
Dec2-6

How hot and cold Yanggu 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 coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -14°C (around January 25), with roughly 148 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 65 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan00-14-9
Feb33-11-7
Mar99-5-1
Apr151524
May2021910
Jun24241515
Jul26261919
Aug27272020
Sep23231515
Oct171778
Nov99-21
Dec22-10-6

Average hourly temperature in Yanggu

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -10°C.

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

Yanggu 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 / -10°234.54.39.70.0
Feb / -7°294.8410.50.0
Mar / -1°457.53.711.71.8
Apr15° / 788.40.8135.0
May21° / 10°978.60146.6
Jun24° / 15°10910.1014.66.7
Jul26° / 19°28517.6014.45.3
Aug27° / 20°23015.5013.55.6
Sep23° / 15°1218.4012.36.9
Oct17° / 525.80.1116.2
Nov / 477.41.29.92.1
Dec / -6°285.84.29.40.0

Chance of rain

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

Yanggu gets about 1144 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.3 months, from around Jun 9 to Sep 15, peaking in July at about 59% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 30.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 285 mm over about 18 wet days; January is the driest, with 23 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 24 · 59%Jan 30 · 14%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan155
Feb185
Mar248
Apr288
May289
Jun3510
Jul5618
Aug5016
Sep298
Oct196
Nov247
Dec196

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Yanggu collects about 1144 mm of rain across 104 wet days — roughly 95 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 285 mm, while January is the driest at just 23 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2329457897109285230121524728
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2354
Feb2954
Mar4584
Apr7881
May9790
Jun109100
Jul285180
Aug230160
Sep12180
Oct5260
Nov4771
Dec2864

Snow in Yanggu

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.

Yanggu averages about 18 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 7 to Apr 21 — about 5.5 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 4 days of snow and an estimated 22 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 76 cm of snow.

02468JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonFeb 26
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan419
Feb422
Mar412
Apr13
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov15
Dec415

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Yanggu, 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 19 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around April 30. The clearest month is December, 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 1 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around September 18. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 73% 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 23 · 67%Jul 19 · 25%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6238
Feb5842
Mar5347
Apr5347
May4951
Jun4258
Jul2773
Aug3664
Sep4951
Oct6337
Nov6139
Dec6337

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 22, brings about 14 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around December 21, only 9 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.77:495:26
Feb10.57:275:59
Mar11.76:476:29
Apr13.05:596:58
May14.05:237:26
Jun14.65:097:47
Jul14.45:217:46
Aug13.55:487:17
Sep12.36:156:30
Oct11.06:435:43
Nov9.97:165:10
Dec9.47:435:05

Sunny days

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

Yanggu averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.8 months, from around Sep 21 to Mar 17. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 4 sunny days — about 70% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightOct 2616 daysJul 184 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun8Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep10Mixed
Oct15Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec15Mixed

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 Yanggu, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around June 10 to September 19. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 92% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 20 to June 9, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 12 · 100%Aug 1 · 1%oppressivemuggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr991000
May8612200
Jun233530111
Jul16244127
Aug17233435
Sep343024102
Oct927100
Nov1000000
Dec1000000

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 Yanggu is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 13 · 9 km/hJun 15 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Yanggu

In seasonPeak

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

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

Yanggu's rainy season runs July–August, 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 Yanggu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Yanggu is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Yanggu for general outdoor tourist activities run from late April to early July and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the first week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 2 · 7.1

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
Feb0.0poor
Mar1.8poor
Apr4.9fair
May6.6good
Jun6.7good
Jul5.4fair
Aug5.7good
Sep6.9good
Oct6.1good
Nov2.1poor
Dec0.0poor

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 Yanggu for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the second week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 13 · 5.9

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 Yanggu, 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 27°C), the essentials are light clothes and rain gear. In the cold season around January (highs near 0°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Yanggu sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 20°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes. About 16 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Yanggu

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 56 km away) is warmest in August at about 24°C and coldest in February near 8°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jul 1 to Oct 5 — about 3.2 months when the water holds above 20°C.

5°10°15°20°25°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan10Bracing
Feb8Bracing
Mar9Bracing
Apr11Bracing
May14Bracing
Jun18Cool
Jul22Refreshing
Aug24Warm
Sep22Refreshing
Oct19Cool
Nov15Cool
Dec12Bracing

UV index (midday) in Yanggu 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 Yanggu peaks around August 17 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 20 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highModerateAug 17UV 9Dec 20UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Yanggu

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 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 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
Feb1.50
Mar4.50
Apr6.51
May6.50.5
Jun7.54
Jul84.5
Aug85
Sep6.53.5
Oct50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Yanggu 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 Yanggu is worst in March — around 46 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.4× the cleanest month (September, 19 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateMar 2046 µg/m³Sep 1120 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan35Poor
Feb38Poor
Mar46Poor
Apr43Poor
May36Poor
Jun29Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct26Moderate
Nov31Moderate
Dec30Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Yanggu typically lasts about 241 days, from around March 24 to November 19 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 14 to October 28.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1910%Mar 2450%Apr 1490%Oct 2890%Nov 1950%Dec 2010%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan531
Feb928
Mar3831
Apr8912
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct975
Nov5830
Dec1431

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. Yanggu banks about 1,619 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr21
May164
Jun290
Jul394
Aug409
Sep261
Oct80
Nov0
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.

Yanggu receives about 4.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.3 and 5.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Feb 28 to Aug 22. The brightest month is May, averaging about 5.7 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.4 kWh/m² — roughly 58% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 305.9 kWhDec 72.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.7Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug4.1Bright
Sep4.0Bright
Oct3.6Moderate
Nov2.5Moderate
Dec2.4Moderate

Where is Yanggu?

Yanggu sits at 38.1°N, 128.0°E, 192 m above sea level, in South Korea. The nearest listed city is Hwacheon, 25 km away.

ChuncheonHongch’ŏnKosongGapyeongSokchoCheorwonHoeyang

Topography around Yanggu

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Yanggu has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 516 m around an average of 287 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,037 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,671 m.

The land around Yanggu is covered by trees (61%) within 3 km, trees (86%) within 16 km, and trees (74%) within 80 km.

3 km
516 m
16 km
1,037 m
80 km
1,671 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Hwacheon 25 km · Chuncheon 34 km · Hongch’ŏn 47 km · Kosong 52 km · Gapyeong 52 km · Sokcho 54 km · Cheorwon 68 km · Hoeyang 75 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 Yanggu (38.1058°, 127.9894°, elevation 192 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).