Rushan climate by month
What the weather is like
Rushan has a monsoon-influenced hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa): dry, cold winters and wet summers.
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 28° and nights 22°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 3° and lows of -5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 26°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 626 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (159 mm, 18 wet days) and March the driest (20 mm, 3 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 28% in October to 47% in July.
The sea reaches about 26° 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, Rushan is 1.9° cooler on a August afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · August
- Coldest nights
- -5° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- March
- Clearest skies
- October · 28% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 26° · August
- Longest day
- 14 h 41 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 39 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 | 3° | 5° | 9° | 15° | 21° | 25° | 28° | 28° | 25° | 19° | 12° | 5° |
| Average low | -5° | -3° | 1° | 7° | 13° | 18° | 22° | 22° | 18° | 11° | 4° | -2° |
| Precipitation | 9 mm | 11 mm | 20 mm | 33 mm | 52 mm | 69 mm | 149 mm | 159 mm | 65 mm | 27 mm | 20 mm | 12 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 3.7 | 3.8 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 8.8 | 9.5 | 14 | 17.8 | 9.7 | 7.5 | 4.8 | 4.2 |
| Cloud cover | 34% | 33% | 34% | 36% | 39% | 42% | 47% | 39% | 33% | 28% | 28% | 31% |
| Sea temperature | 5° | 4° | 5° | 9° | 14° | 19° | 23° | 26° | 24° | 20° | 15° | 10° |
| Daylight | 9h 54 | 10h 50 | 11h 54 | 13h 07 | 14h 07 | 14h 41 | 14h 28 | 13h 36 | 12h 28 | 11h 18 | 10h 14 | 9h 39 |
| Month score | 48 | 48 | 50 | 73 | 76 | 72 | 48 | 50 | 76 | 82 | 55 | 48 |