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Quanzhou climate by month
What the weather is like
Quanzhou 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 32° and nights 26°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 17° and lows of 9°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 16°.
About 1,160 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (192 mm, 20 wet days) and October the driest (36 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 28% in December to 62% 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, Quanzhou is 0.2° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 32° · July
- Coldest nights
- 9° · January
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- October
- Clearest skies
- December · 28% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 28° · August
- Longest day
- 13 h 40 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 36 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 | 17° | 17° | 20° | 24° | 27° | 29° | 32° | 31° | 30° | 27° | 23° | 19° |
| Average low | 9° | 10° | 12° | 16° | 21° | 24° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 20° | 16° | 11° |
| Precipitation | 32 mm | 70 mm | 102 mm | 126 mm | 162 mm | 192 mm | 128 mm | 141 mm | 113 mm | 36 mm | 33 mm | 25 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 6.9 | 8.6 | 14.3 | 14.4 | 18.8 | 20.1 | 14.2 | 18.4 | 13.8 | 5 | 6.6 | 6.4 |
| Cloud cover | 35% | 47% | 49% | 50% | 54% | 62% | 48% | 44% | 39% | 29% | 31% | 28% |
| Sea temperature | 16° | 15° | 17° | 20° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 21° | 18° |
| Daylight | 10h 45 | 11h 19 | 11h 59 | 12h 44 | 13h 20 | 13h 40 | 13h 33 | 13h 02 | 12h 19 | 11h 36 | 10h 57 | 10h 36 |
| Month score | 75 | 68 | 59 | 59 | 49 | 37 | 32 | 35 | 44 | 79 | 84 | 85 |