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How is the weather where you are going, month by month?

Answered with 30 years of reanalysis data — average highs and lows, rainfall, cloud cover, daylight and sea temperature. No guesswork, and every number traceable to its source.

The year in one lineThree climates, twelve months each

Each bar is a month. Colour is the average temperature, and the darker band at the foot of a bar is how wet that month is compared with the rest of that place’s year. Every destination page opens with the same figure, and each bar is a link to that month.

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month Figures are 1991–2020 normals

RankingsWhere to go, and when

Every destination scored against every other for the same month, on the figures that decide whether a trip works: temperature, rain, cloud and sea. The method is on the methodology page.

All rankings →

DestinationsThe most looked-up places

Beijing China
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  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
-8.3 to 32 °C Chengdu China
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
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  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
2.6 to 30 °C Guangzhou China
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
10 to 32 °C Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
22 to 34 °C Istanbul Turkey
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
4.0 to 28 °C Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
20 to 31 °C Lagos Nigeria
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
24 to 31 °C Lahore Pakistan
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  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
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  11. N
  12. D
6.1 to 39 °C Mumbai India
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
19 to 33 °C Shanghai China
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
1.4 to 31 °C Shenzhen China
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
12 to 31 °C São Paulo Brazil
  1. J
  2. F
  3. M
  4. A
  5. M
  6. J
  7. J
  8. A
  9. S
  10. O
  11. N
  12. D
12 to 27 °C

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Each destination also has a page per month, with a daily temperature curve through the month and a comparison against the months on either side.

QuestionsWhat this site is, and is not

Is this a weather forecast?

No. Every figure on this site is a historical average for 1991–2020, so it describes what a month is normally like, not what it will be like on a given date. Use it to choose when to travel; use a forecast to pack for next week.

Where do the numbers come from?

Temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind and cloud cover come from the ERA5 reanalysis produced by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, retrieved through Open-Meteo. Sea surface temperature comes from NOAA OISST. Place names, coordinates and elevation come from GeoNames. Nothing is hand-edited.

What is a climate normal?

A climate normal is the average of a weather variable over a fixed 30-year period — here 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization currently uses. Thirty years is long enough that a single unusual year cannot move the average much.

How accurate is it for a specific town?

ERA5 is a gridded model, so a figure describes the grid cell a place sits in rather than a thermometer in the town square. That works well for flat and coastal terrain and less well in mountains, where a valley and a ridge a few kilometres apart can differ by several degrees. Places whose climate series is indistinguishable from a larger neighbour are excluded rather than published twice.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.