Kirkwall weather — 10-day forecast

Temperature, rain, wind and feels-like in Kirkwall, hour by hour and over 10 days, with the seasonal normal for context.

Now

Reading from 01:00 · DWD ICON-EU model

14 °C

Light drizzle

Feels like 10 °C

24.2 km/hforce 4

Next 12 h

  • 0114°89 %
  • 0214°94 %
  • 0314°91 %
  • 0414°89 %
  • 0514°47 %
  • 05:15Sunrise
  • 0614°
  • 0714°47 %
  • 0814°91 %
  • 0914°91 %
  • 1014°88 %
  • 1114°48 %
  • 1215°81 %
  • 1315°81 %

14°09:00 15°13:00

Humidity
87 %
Dew point
12 °C
Gusts
35.1 km/h
Clouds
100 %
Pressure
1,011 hPa

Grid point 2.1 km away · 6.5 km grid · elevation 3 m

Air quality

The European air-quality index for the city, and the pollutants that set it.

Reading from 01:00
20
Fair

Index set by Ozone

Ozone
50.4µg/m³
PM2.5
1.1µg/m³
PM10
1.6µg/m³
Nitrogen dioxide
0.7µg/m³
Sulphur dioxide
0.4µg/m³
Carbon monoxide
116.0µg/m³
Dust (AOD)
0.00

Generated using Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information

Hour by hour

Step-by-step detail: temperature, wind, cloud cover and ultraviolet.

Estimated from a deterministic model, not an ensemble probability.
°C

9 days

Each day's extremes and the chance of rain, out to the end of the run.

10° → 19°

Rain probability (> 1 mm): 50 ECMWF ensemble members.

  • Today

    Light rain100 %

    16°

    14°

  • Sun

    Light drizzle100 %

    14°

    11°

  • Mon

    Partly cloudy90 %

    13°

    10°

  • Tue

    Light drizzle28 %

    14°

    10°

  • Wed

    Light drizzle28 %

    19°

    14°

  • Thu

    Light drizzle4 mm

    19°

    15°

  • Fri

    Light drizzle0 mm

    16°

    15°

  • Sat

    Light drizzle1 mm

    14°

    13°

  • Sun

    Light drizzle1 mm

    14°

    12°

Gusts · Sun 58.5 km/h

Sun and UV

Sunrise, sunset, day length and ultraviolet intensity.

Max UV2low
Sunrise
05:15
Daylight
16 h 04
Sunset
21:19

Radiation · 4.5 MJ/m²

Sea state

Sea state at the marine grid point closest to the city.

0.7 mperiod 3 s 214°

Significant height: the mean of the highest third of waves. Individual waves reach about twice it.

Data: ECMWF

Today in Kirkwall the mean temperature will be 14.5 °C — +2.0 °C against the normal for 8 August, measured from 1940 to 2026. (1,290 obs.)

Kirkwall climate — normals and trends

Nearby cities

The climate around Kirkwall