Chengde climate

Name: Chengde
Address: CN

Chengde is warmest in July, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -12 °C. July is the wettest month (152 mm) and January the driest (2.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Chengde averages 575 mm of rain, 105 days above 25 °C and 142 days below freezing.

China · population 449,325 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 29 °C
Coldest month January -12 °C
Driest month January 2 mm
Wettest month July 152 mm
Least cloud January 25 % cloud
Hottest on record June 39 °C
Coldest on record January -25 °C

What to expectChengde through the year

Chengde has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -1.3 °C in January to 29 °C in July, a swing of 31 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 105 days a year reach 25 °C, 33 of them reach 30 °C, 142 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 152 mm against 2 mm in January — 69 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-1.3 °C	2 mm	25 %
February	3.0 °C	4 mm	32 %
March	9.8 °C	13 mm	38 %
April	17.5 °C	27 mm	43 %
May	24.2 °C	46 mm	48 %
June	27.8 °C	101 mm	59 %
July	29.3 °C	152 mm	62 %
August	28.2 °C	118 mm	56 %
September	23.6 °C	60 mm	45 %
October	16.0 °C	35 mm	34 %
November	6.3 °C	13 mm	30 %
December	-0.3 °C	4 mm	25 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	-1.3 °C	-12.0 °C	-6.8 °C	8.4 °C	-25.0 °C	0	0	31
February	3.0 °C	-8.1 °C	-2.7 °C	16.1 °C	-21.8 °C	0	0	28
March	9.8 °C	-1.6 °C	3.6 °C	28.3 °C	-15.4 °C	0	0	22
April	17.5 °C	4.1 °C	10.7 °C	32.2 °C	-5.6 °C	2	0	4
May	24.2 °C	11.1 °C	17.6 °C	37.6 °C	-0.3 °C	13	3	0
June	27.8 °C	16.6 °C	22.1 °C	39.4 °C	7.4 °C	23	9	0
July	29.3 °C	20.1 °C	24.4 °C	39.1 °C	12.0 °C	28	13	0
August	28.2 °C	18.7 °C	23.2 °C	36.1 °C	9.2 °C	27	8	0
September	23.6 °C	12.9 °C	18.1 °C	34.9 °C	2.5 °C	11	1	0
October	16.0 °C	4.9 °C	10.2 °C	28.9 °C	-3.9 °C	0	0	3
November	6.3 °C	-2.7 °C	1.5 °C	18.7 °C	-17.5 °C	0	0	23
December	-0.3 °C	-9.6 °C	-5.0 °C	8.1 °C	-22.3 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	2 mm	1	9.6 h/day	25 %	43 %	13 km/h
February	4 mm	1	11 h/day	32 %	40 %	14 km/h
March	13 mm	3	12 h/day	38 %	43 %	15 km/h
April	27 mm	5	13 h/day	43 %	47 %	16 km/h
May	46 mm	6	14 h/day	48 %	51 %	16 km/h
June	101 mm	11	15 h/day	59 %	64 %	13 km/h
July	152 mm	14	15 h/day	62 %	75 %	11 km/h
August	118 mm	11	14 h/day	56 %	74 %	10 km/h
September	60 mm	7	12 h/day	45 %	66 %	11 km/h
October	35 mm	5	11 h/day	34 %	61 %	13 km/h
November	13 mm	3	9.9 h/day	30 %	54 %	12 km/h
December	4 mm	1	9.3 h/day	25 %	45 %	13 km/h

How Chengde compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Chengde	29 °C	-12 °C	575 mm	105
Sanhe · China	31 °C	-8.6 °C	596 mm	136
Tangshan · China	31 °C	-8.3 °C	647 mm	130
Tongzhou · China	32 °C	-8.2 °C	580 mm	142
Chifeng · China	30 °C	-16 °C	394 mm	99
Beijing · China	32 °C	-8.3 °C	545 mm	141
Qinhuangdao · China	28 °C	-9.0 °C	648 mm	97

Where Chengde ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in May	9th of 50	94/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in September	47th of 50	94/100

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Chengde.

QuestionsCommon questions about Chengde’s climate

When is the best time to visit Chengde?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. May, June, September sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Chengde get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 33 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -12 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 142 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Chengde?

July, averaging 152 mm over 14 days with rain. The driest month is January with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 575 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Chengde rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 40.952°, 117.959° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. 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.