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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Mingxing
Mingxing climate by month
Cold semi-arid · BSkBest Apr–May · Oct
Annual mean12°day and night
Seasonal swing28°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation475 mm73 wet days a year
37.43° N, 112.54° EElevation 788 mUTC+8 · China Standard Time
When to goMingxing · weather score
Best timeApr–May · Oct
October: high / low18° / 6°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Mingxing has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk): little rain, large day–night swings and strong sunshine.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 30° and nights 20°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 3° and lows of -9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 28°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 475 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (110 mm, 15 wet days) and January the driest (4 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 20% in December to 37% in June.
Compared with Beijing, the capital, Mingxing is 1.5° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · July
- Coldest nights
- -9° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- December · 20% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 44 min
- Shortest day
- 9 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 | 3° | 7° | 12° | 20° | 25° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 24° | 18° | 10° | 4° |
| Average low | -9° | -5° | -1° | 5° | 12° | 17° | 20° | 18° | 13° | 6° | -1° | -6° |
| Precipitation | 4 mm | 6 mm | 13 mm | 24 mm | 41 mm | 64 mm | 110 mm | 106 mm | 62 mm | 29 mm | 12 mm | 4 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 0.9 | 2 | 2 | 5.1 | 6.3 | 10.6 | 14.8 | 13.2 | 9.6 | 5 | 2.8 | 1.1 |
| Cloud cover | 22% | 28% | 33% | 33% | 35% | 37% | 34% | 31% | 33% | 28% | 21% | 20% |
| Daylight | 9h 51 | 10h 48 | 11h 54 | 13h 08 | 14h 10 | 14h 44 | 14h 31 | 13h 38 | 12h 28 | 11h 17 | 10h 11 | 9h 36 |
| Month score | 56 | 53 | 63 | 87 | 82 | 54 | 43 | 54 | 76 | 87 | 53 | 55 |
ivMonth by month
Mingxing in every month
January56
3° / -9°
4 mm · 0.9 wet day
February53
7° / -5°
6 mm · 2 wet days
March63
12° / -1°
13 mm · 2 wet days
April87
20° / 5°
24 mm · 5.1 wet days
May82
25° / 12°
41 mm · 6.3 wet days
June54
29° / 17°
64 mm · 10.6 wet days
July43
30° / 20°
110 mm · 14.8 wet days
August54
29° / 18°
106 mm · 13.2 wet days
September76
24° / 13°
62 mm · 9.6 wet days
October87
18° / 6°
29 mm · 5 wet days
November53
10° / -1°
12 mm · 2.8 wet days
December55
4° / -6°
4 mm · 1.1 wet day