Fuqing climate by month
What the weather is like
Fuqing has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 31° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 8°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 18°.
About 1,287 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (203 mm, 23 wet days) and January the driest (40 mm, 6 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 40% in October to 63% in June.
The sea reaches about 27° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Beijing, the capital, Fuqing is 0.8° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · July
- Coldest nights
- 8° · January
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- October · 40% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 44 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 33 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 14° | 14° | 17° | 21° | 25° | 28° | 31° | 31° | 28° | 24° | 20° | 16° |
| Average low | 8° | 8° | 10° | 15° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 15° | 10° |
| Precipitation | 40 mm | 75 mm | 121 mm | 131 mm | 166 mm | 203 mm | 151 mm | 145 mm | 140 mm | 47 mm | 37 mm | 31 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 5.8 | 11 | 15.2 | 15.5 | 19.8 | 22.7 | 14.3 | 17.2 | 15.7 | 10 | 8.3 | 6.2 |
| Cloud cover | 48% | 55% | 55% | 53% | 56% | 63% | 48% | 44% | 43% | 40% | 46% | 42% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 24° | 21° | 17° |
| Daylight | 10h 42 | 11h 17 | 11h 58 | 12h 45 | 13h 23 | 13h 44 | 13h 36 | 13h 04 | 12h 20 | 11h 35 | 10h 54 | 10h 33 |
| Month score | 55 | 42 | 50 | 57 | 56 | 41 | 34 | 38 | 49 | 72 | 74 | 68 |