Daqing climate

Name: Daqing
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Daqing is warmest in July, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -24 °C. July is the wettest month (127 mm) and January the driest (2.6 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Daqing averages 488 mm of rain, 71 days above 25 °C and 172 days below freezing.

China · population 1,604,027 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month January -24 °C
Driest month January 3 mm
Wettest month July 127 mm
Least cloud January 33 % cloud
Hottest on record June 38 °C
Coldest on record January -40 °C

What to expectDaqing through the year

Daqing has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -13 °C in January to 28 °C in July, a swing of 42 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 71 days a year reach 25 °C, 15 of them reach 30 °C, 172 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 127 mm against 3 mm in January — 49 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-13.3 °C	3 mm	33 %
February	-7.1 °C	3 mm	37 %
March	2.7 °C	10 mm	43 %
April	12.8 °C	24 mm	50 %
May	20.6 °C	40 mm	57 %
June	25.9 °C	83 mm	58 %
July	27.7 °C	127 mm	59 %
August	25.8 °C	101 mm	55 %
September	20.2 °C	57 mm	44 %
October	11.0 °C	27 mm	38 %
November	-1.0 °C	8 mm	39 %
December	-11.4 °C	5 mm	35 %

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	-13.3 °C	-23.5 °C	-18.3 °C	0.6 °C	-39.6 °C	0	0	31
February	-7.1 °C	-18.8 °C	-12.8 °C	8.9 °C	-37.7 °C	0	0	28
March	2.7 °C	-8.1 °C	-3.0 °C	19.7 °C	-27.0 °C	0	0	30
April	12.8 °C	0.9 °C	6.7 °C	30.0 °C	-8.4 °C	0	0	14
May	20.6 °C	8.7 °C	14.6 °C	34.1 °C	-1.8 °C	6	1	0
June	25.9 °C	15.6 °C	20.8 °C	37.5 °C	3.9 °C	17	5	0
July	27.7 °C	19.4 °C	23.4 °C	37.0 °C	11.6 °C	25	7	0
August	25.8 °C	17.7 °C	21.6 °C	34.6 °C	7.8 °C	19	2	0
September	20.2 °C	11.2 °C	15.5 °C	32.2 °C	1.3 °C	4	0	0
October	11.0 °C	2.4 °C	6.4 °C	27.5 °C	-7.7 °C	0	0	9
November	-1.0 °C	-8.0 °C	-4.6 °C	16.1 °C	-27.1 °C	0	0	29
December	-11.4 °C	-20.1 °C	-15.6 °C	7.2 °C	-35.9 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	3 mm	1	9.0 h/day	33 %	68 %	16 km/h
February	3 mm	1	10 h/day	37 %	63 %	18 km/h
March	10 mm	2	12 h/day	43 %	47 %	21 km/h
April	24 mm	4	14 h/day	50 %	45 %	24 km/h
May	40 mm	7	15 h/day	57 %	50 %	23 km/h
June	83 mm	11	16 h/day	58 %	62 %	19 km/h
July	127 mm	13	15 h/day	59 %	73 %	17 km/h
August	101 mm	10	14 h/day	55 %	74 %	17 km/h
September	57 mm	7	13 h/day	44 %	66 %	20 km/h
October	27 mm	5	11 h/day	38 %	62 %	21 km/h
November	8 mm	2	9.4 h/day	39 %	62 %	19 km/h
December	5 mm	2	8.6 h/day	35 %	66 %	16 km/h

How Daqing 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
Daqing	28 °C	-24 °C	488 mm	71
Zhaodong · China	27 °C	-23 °C	560 mm	72
Hulan Ergi · China	28 °C	-24 °C	456 mm	75
Suihua · China	27 °C	-26 °C	638 mm	59
Harbin · China	27 °C	-24 °C	638 mm	70
Baicheng · China	29 °C	-19 °C	404 mm	89
Bei’an · China	26 °C	-28 °C	622 mm	47

Where Daqing ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Asia in January	8th of 50	-13 °C
The coolest places in Asia in December	9th of 50	-11 °C
The coolest places in Asia in November	18th of 50	-1.0 °C
The coolest places in Asia in February	19th of 50	-7.1 °C
The coolest places in Asia year-round	21st of 50	9.5 °C
The coolest places in the world in December	21st of 50	-11 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Daqing’s climate

When is the best time to visit Daqing?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August 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 Daqing get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 15 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -24 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 172 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Daqing?

July, averaging 127 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is January with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 488 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 Daqing 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: 46.583°, 125.000° (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.