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Fuzhou climate by month
What the weather is like
Fuzhou 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 33° and nights 25°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 19°.
About 1,291 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (190 mm, 21 wet days) and October the driest (47 mm, 7 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 41% in October to 64% 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, Fuzhou is 0.8° warmer on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 33° · July
- Coldest nights
- 6° · January
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- October
- Clearest skies
- October · 41% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 45 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 31 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° | 22° | 26° | 29° | 33° | 32° | 29° | 25° | 20° | 16° |
| Average low | 6° | 7° | 10° | 14° | 19° | 23° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 18° | 13° | 8° |
| Precipitation | 44 mm | 76 mm | 131 mm | 139 mm | 173 mm | 190 mm | 131 mm | 151 mm | 138 mm | 47 mm | 39 mm | 32 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 9.1 | 11.6 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 20.1 | 20.6 | 15.1 | 19.6 | 14.3 | 6.5 | 9.9 | 8 |
| Cloud cover | 51% | 58% | 58% | 56% | 58% | 64% | 50% | 45% | 45% | 41% | 47% | 43% |
| Sea temperature | 14° | 13° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 25° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 24° | 21° | 17° |
| Daylight | 10h 41 | 11h 16 | 11h 58 | 12h 45 | 13h 24 | 13h 45 | 13h 37 | 13h 05 | 12h 20 | 11h 35 | 10h 53 | 10h 31 |
| Month score | 47 | 41 | 51 | 56 | 53 | 36 | 27 | 33 | 46 | 80 | 70 | 65 |