Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Dongxia
Dongxia climate by month
Monsoon-influenced hot-summer continental · DwaBest Apr · Sep–Oct
Annual mean14°day and night
Seasonal swing28°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation603 mm71 wet days a year
36.75° N, 118.58° EElevation 68 mUTC+8 · China Standard Time
When to goDongxia · weather score
Best timeApr · Sep–Oct
October: high / low21° / 10°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Dongxia has a monsoon-influenced hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa): dry, cold winters and wet summers.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 31° and nights 23°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 4° and lows of -6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 28°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 603 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (150 mm, 15 wet days) and January the driest (7 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 25% in December to 43% in July.
Compared with Beijing, the capital, Dongxia is 0.6° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · July
- Coldest nights
- -6° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 25% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 40 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 40 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 | 4° | 7° | 13° | 21° | 26° | 30° | 31° | 30° | 26° | 21° | 13° | 6° |
| Average low | -6° | -4° | 1° | 9° | 15° | 20° | 23° | 22° | 17° | 10° | 2° | -4° |
| Precipitation | 7 mm | 11 mm | 15 mm | 26 mm | 55 mm | 79 mm | 150 mm | 145 mm | 55 mm | 33 mm | 18 mm | 9 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 1.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 4.5 | 6.2 | 8.6 | 14.7 | 13.9 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.3 |
| Cloud cover | 28% | 32% | 35% | 35% | 38% | 39% | 43% | 37% | 33% | 30% | 27% | 25% |
| Daylight | 9h 55 | 10h 50 | 11h 54 | 13h 07 | 14h 07 | 14h 40 | 14h 27 | 13h 36 | 12h 28 | 11h 18 | 10h 14 | 9h 40 |
| Month score | 55 | 51 | 65 | 87 | 77 | 53 | 36 | 44 | 78 | 91 | 64 | 53 |
ivMonth by month
Dongxia in every month
January55
4° / -6°
7 mm · 1.4 wet day
February51
7° / -4°
11 mm · 2.5 wet days
March65
13° / 1°
15 mm · 2.9 wet days
April87
21° / 9°
26 mm · 4.5 wet days
May77
26° / 15°
55 mm · 6.2 wet days
June53
30° / 20°
79 mm · 8.6 wet days
July36
31° / 23°
150 mm · 14.7 wet days
August44
30° / 22°
145 mm · 13.9 wet days
September78
26° / 17°
55 mm · 6.5 wet days
October91
21° / 10°
33 mm · 3.8 wet days
November64
13° / 2°
18 mm · 3.6 wet days
December53
6° / -4°
9 mm · 2.3 wet days