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Busan weather by month

Busan runs from about 2°C in January to 28°C in August, with October the wettest month at 259 mm.

warmest month

August

28°C

coolest month

January

2°C

wettest month

October

259 mm

worst air month

March

31 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Busan
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January2°C54 mm231 h18
February6°C119 mm155 h22
March7°C122 mm256 h31
April14°C130 mm223 h21
May17°C114 mm328 h17
June22°C237 mm254 h14
July26°C224 mm252 h13
August28°C132 mm368 h16
September25°C243 mm291 h12
October18°C259 mm218 h12
November11°C102 mm242 h20
December2°C0 mm271 h18

About 3,089 hours of sun a year. Roughly 172 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.