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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Daqing
Daqing climate by month
Monsoon-influenced hot-summer continental · DwaBest May · Aug–Sep
Annual mean4°day and night
Seasonal swing42°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation461 mm80 wet days a year
46.58° N, 125.00° EElevation 146 mUTC+8 · China Standard Time
When to goDaqing · weather score
Best timeMay · Aug–Sep
October: high / low11° / 2°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Daqing has a monsoon-influenced hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa): dry, cold winters and wet summers.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 27° and nights 19°. January is the coolest month, with highs of -14° and lows of -24°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 42°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 461 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (148 mm, 16 wet days) and January the driest (2 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 23% in January to 42% in July.
Compared with Beijing, the capital, Daqing is 4.5° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 27° · July
- Coldest nights
- -24° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- January · 23% cloud
- Longest day
- 15 h 48 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 36 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | -14° | -8° | 2° | 13° | 21° | 26° | 27° | 26° | 20° | 11° | -1° | -11° |
| Average low | -24° | -20° | -9° | 1° | 8° | 16° | 19° | 18° | 11° | 2° | -9° | -20° |
| Precipitation | 2 mm | 2 mm | 7 mm | 20 mm | 31 mm | 82 mm | 148 mm | 102 mm | 40 mm | 18 mm | 5 mm | 4 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 4.7 | 9 | 14.6 | 16.4 | 13.2 | 7.8 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 2 |
| Cloud cover | 23% | 25% | 31% | 36% | 37% | 40% | 42% | 36% | 29% | 25% | 25% | 24% |
| Daylight | 8h 58 | 10h 19 | 11h 50 | 13h 32 | 14h 59 | 15h 48 | 15h 29 | 14h 15 | 12h 37 | 10h 59 | 9h 27 | 8h 36 |
| Month score | 56 | 55 | 51 | 59 | 76 | 59 | 52 | 63 | 82 | 52 | 52 | 53 |
ivMonth by month
Daqing in every month
January56
-14° / -24°
2 mm · 0.9 wet day
February55
-8° / -20°
2 mm · 1.4 wet day
March51
2° / -9°
7 mm · 2.6 wet days
April59
13° / 1°
20 mm · 4.7 wet days
May76
21° / 8°
31 mm · 9 wet days
June59
26° / 16°
82 mm · 14.6 wet days
July52
27° / 19°
148 mm · 16.4 wet days
August63
26° / 18°
102 mm · 13.2 wet days
September82
20° / 11°
40 mm · 7.8 wet days
October52
11° / 2°
18 mm · 4.2 wet days
November52
-1° / -9°
5 mm · 2.7 wet days
December53
-11° / -20°
4 mm · 2 wet days