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Putian climate by month
What the weather is like
Putian 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 25°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 15° and lows of 8°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 17°.
About 1,436 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (232 mm, 24 wet days) and January the driest (40 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 34% 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, Putian is 0.6° 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 · 34% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 27° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 43 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 34 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 | 15° | 15° | 18° | 22° | 26° | 28° | 31° | 31° | 29° | 25° | 21° | 17° |
| Average low | 8° | 8° | 11° | 15° | 20° | 23° | 25° | 25° | 23° | 19° | 15° | 9° |
| Precipitation | 40 mm | 86 mm | 132 mm | 150 mm | 191 mm | 232 mm | 170 mm | 172 mm | 146 mm | 48 mm | 37 mm | 32 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 4.8 | 9.3 | 14.2 | 14.2 | 19.2 | 23.5 | 15.7 | 17.7 | 16.2 | 9 | 8.5 | 5.3 |
| Cloud cover | 42% | 52% | 52% | 53% | 55% | 63% | 49% | 45% | 41% | 34% | 39% | 35% |
| Sea temperature | 15° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 27° | 24° | 21° | 18° |
| Daylight | 10h 43 | 11h 18 | 11h 59 | 12h 44 | 13h 22 | 13h 43 | 13h 35 | 13h 03 | 12h 20 | 11h 36 | 10h 55 | 10h 34 |
| Month score | 67 | 54 | 58 | 57 | 54 | 39 | 33 | 37 | 47 | 75 | 76 | 80 |