Pakistan Weather Forecast
Current conditions, an hour-by-hour outlook and a 7-day forecast for any city in Pakistan — or anywhere else in the world.
How to Use Weather Forecast
Pakistan Weather, City by City
Pakistan does not have one climate, it has several, and they rarely agree. On the same July afternoon Karachi can be sitting at 34°C with 80% humidity and a feels-like figure over 45, Islamabad can be under a monsoon downpour, Quetta can be dry and twelve degrees cooler, and Skardu can need a jacket. A national average is useless here. This tool gives you the forecast for the specific place you care about, updated as the models are.
Every figure on the page is fetched live from Open-Meteo when you pick a city. Nothing is cached, nothing is stale, and nothing is guessed.
What the numbers mean
- Temperature — air temperature in the shade, two metres above the ground. In direct Punjab sun you will feel considerably more.
- Feels like — apparent temperature, adjusted for humidity, wind and sun. The number that matters for heat risk.
- Humidity — relative humidity. Above roughly 70% your sweat stops evaporating efficiently, which is why a humid 35°C in Karachi is harder on the body than a dry 40°C in Multan.
- Wind — sustained speed in km/h at ten metres. Gusts run higher.
- Rain chance — probability that measurable rain falls at that point during that hour or day. Not a measure of how much.
The monsoon, and why forecasts get harder in July
Pakistan's monsoon normally arrives in the first days of July and runs into September, and it is the single hardest thing to forecast in the country's weather year. Monsoon rain is convective: it forms in cells that can be a few kilometres across, drop a month of rain on one neighbourhood and leave the next one dry. A model working on a grid several kilometres wide can tell you that the day is unstable and that heavy rain is likely somewhere nearby. It cannot tell you that your street will flood at four o'clock.
So during monsoon season, read the hourly panel for when the risk window opens rather than for a precise start time, and treat a high rain probability as a reason to leave early rather than a schedule.
Heat
Heatwaves in Sindh and southern Punjab are a serious public-health matter, and the 2015 Karachi heatwave — which killed well over a thousand people — is the reason to take the feels-like figure seriously rather than the headline temperature. Humid coastal heat is more dangerous than the same reading inland, because the body cannot shed heat by sweating when the air is already saturated. When the feels-like figure climbs past 45°C, the ordinary advice is genuinely load-bearing: stay out of the afternoon sun, drink before you are thirsty, and check on elderly neighbours and anyone working outdoors.
Mountains are a special case
Forecasts for Murree, Naran, Gilgit, Hunza, Skardu and Chitral are less reliable than forecasts for the plains, and it is worth knowing why. Model grid cells are far wider than the terrain varies: a single cell may average a valley floor and a ridge two thousand metres above it into one number. Conditions in the northern areas can also change within the hour. Use the forecast to decide whether a trip is sensible at all, then ask locally on the day.
Where to go for warnings
This page is a forecast, not an alerting service. The Pakistan Meteorological Department issues the official advisories — monsoon and riverine flood warnings, glacial lake outburst flood alerts for the north, heatwave advisories, and cyclone tracking in the Arabian Sea — and the NDMA coordinates the response. If a model on this page and a PMD warning disagree, the warning wins. Nothing here is a substitute for either.
Frequently Asked Questions
Today and tomorrow are usually close — temperature within a degree or two, and rain timing within an hour or so. Accuracy falls off steadily after that, and by day six or seven the forecast is better read as a trend than as a plan. Mountain areas such as Murree, Gilgit and Chitral are the hardest cases anywhere in Pakistan, because a single grid cell has to stand for valleys and ridges thousands of feet apart.
From Open-Meteo, which combines the open forecast models published by national weather services — among them the European ECMWF, the American NOAA GFS and the German DWD ICON. Your browser requests it directly, so the data is as current as the most recent model run, typically updated every hour.
No, and it is important not to treat it as one. This is raw numerical model output. The PMD issues the official warnings for Pakistan — monsoon flooding, glacial lake outburst floods, heatwaves, cyclones in the Arabian Sea — and those carry local knowledge and an alerting responsibility that a model does not. For anything involving safety, follow the PMD and the NDMA.
Because you are almost certainly looking at a different model. Apps blend their own mix of sources, and two reputable models can differ by two or three degrees for the same city and hour. Neither one is wrong; they are different estimates of the same uncertain thing. Where they disagree sharply, treat the day as genuinely uncertain.
It is apparent temperature: what the air does to a human body once humidity, wind and sunshine are taken into account. In Karachi during a humid June, the feels-like figure can run five to eight degrees above the air temperature, because sweat evaporates poorly in humid air and your body loses its main cooling mechanism. That number, not the air temperature, is the one to judge heat risk by.
That in forty runs out of a hundred with conditions like these, measurable rain falls at that location during that period. It is not a statement about how much rain, or about what fraction of the city gets wet. A 40% day with a thunderstorm in it can be drier at your house and far wetter two kilometres away.
No. The "My location" button asks your browser for coordinates and sends them straight to Open-Meteo to fetch the forecast. Nothing reaches Weekly Pakistan's server, nothing is stored, and the button does nothing at all unless you press it and grant permission.
Yes. The search box covers every populated place worldwide, so Chitral, Skardu, Bahawalpur, Turbat and Gwadar all work as well as Karachi. If a name is ambiguous — and plenty are — add the country, as in "Hyderabad, Pakistan".
The local time of the place you searched for, not your own. A forecast for Karachi read from London shows Karachi hours, which is what you want when you are checking on family or planning a call.