Gaojing climate by month
What the weather is like
Gaojing 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 8° and lows of 1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 24°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 1,410 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (221 mm, 17 wet days) and October the driest (74 mm, 7 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 34% in December to 56% in June.
The sea reaches about 28° 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, Gaojing is 0.9° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 31° · July
- Coldest nights
- 1° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- October
- Clearest skies
- December · 34% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 28° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 10 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 08 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 | 8° | 9° | 13° | 19° | 24° | 27° | 31° | 30° | 27° | 22° | 17° | 11° |
| Average low | 1° | 3° | 6° | 11° | 17° | 21° | 26° | 26° | 22° | 16° | 10° | 4° |
| Precipitation | 74 mm | 74 mm | 110 mm | 99 mm | 112 mm | 215 mm | 182 mm | 221 mm | 132 mm | 74 mm | 70 mm | 47 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.7 | 10.3 | 10.3 | 10.5 | 10.8 | 14.7 | 16.7 | 17.4 | 11.2 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 7.9 |
| Cloud cover | 43% | 47% | 51% | 51% | 49% | 56% | 51% | 40% | 37% | 35% | 37% | 34% |
| Sea temperature | 8° | 7° | 10° | 14° | 19° | 22° | 26° | 28° | 26° | 21° | 17° | 12° |
| Daylight | 10h 19 | 11h 04 | 11h 56 | 12h 55 | 13h 44 | 14h 10 | 14h 00 | 13h 19 | 12h 24 | 11h 27 | 10h 35 | 10h 08 |
| Month score | 32 | 27 | 41 | 66 | 67 | 49 | 33 | 40 | 64 | 82 | 68 | 41 |