Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Yima
Yima climate by month
Monsoon-influenced hot-summer continental · DwaBest Apr–May · Oct
Annual mean13°day and night
Seasonal swing26°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation601 mm77 wet days a year
34.74° N, 111.88° EElevation 484 mUTC+8 · China Standard Time
When to goYima · weather score
Best timeApr–May · Oct
October: high / low19° / 9°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Yima has a monsoon-influenced hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa): dry, cold winters and wet summers.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 30° and nights 21°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 5° and lows of -5°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 26°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 601 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. July is the wettest month (128 mm, 14 wet days) and December the driest (8 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 28% in December to 47% in May.
Compared with Beijing, the capital, Yima is 1.9° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · July
- Coldest nights
- -5° · January
- Wettest month
- July
- Driest month
- December
- Clearest skies
- December · 28% cloud
- Longest day
- 14 h 28 min
- Shortest day
- 9 h 51 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 | 5° | 8° | 14° | 21° | 26° | 30° | 30° | 28° | 24° | 19° | 13° | 6° |
| Average low | -5° | -3° | 1° | 8° | 14° | 19° | 21° | 20° | 15° | 9° | 2° | -4° |
| Precipitation | 9 mm | 13 mm | 25 mm | 32 mm | 59 mm | 65 mm | 128 mm | 106 mm | 89 mm | 46 mm | 21 mm | 8 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 2.2 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 6.8 | 8.6 | 13.8 | 12.9 | 9.7 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 1.9 |
| Cloud cover | 32% | 39% | 44% | 43% | 47% | 43% | 47% | 44% | 45% | 40% | 33% | 28% |
| Daylight | 10h 04 | 10h 56 | 11h 55 | 13h 02 | 13h 58 | 14h 28 | 14h 17 | 13h 29 | 12h 26 | 11h 22 | 10h 22 | 9h 51 |
| Month score | 52 | 46 | 63 | 82 | 74 | 55 | 40 | 51 | 71 | 82 | 61 | 54 |
ivMonth by month
Yima in every month
January52
5° / -5°
9 mm · 2.2 wet days
February46
8° / -3°
13 mm · 3.5 wet days
March63
14° / 1°
25 mm · 3.2 wet days
April82
21° / 8°
32 mm · 5.2 wet days
May74
26° / 14°
59 mm · 6.8 wet days
June55
30° / 19°
65 mm · 8.6 wet days
July40
30° / 21°
128 mm · 13.8 wet days
August51
28° / 20°
106 mm · 12.9 wet days
September71
24° / 15°
89 mm · 9.7 wet days
October82
19° / 9°
46 mm · 5.7 wet days
November61
13° / 2°
21 mm · 3.9 wet days
December54
6° / -4°
8 mm · 1.9 wet days