Heze climate

Name: Heze
Address: CN

Heze is warmest in June, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -4.4 °C. July is the wettest month (187 mm) and January the driest (9.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Heze averages 707 mm of rain, 147 days above 25 °C and 85 days below freezing.

China · population 1,346,717 · 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 June 32 °C
Coldest month January -4.4 °C
Driest month January 9 mm
Wettest month July 187 mm
Least cloud December 41 % cloud
Hottest on record July 42 °C
Coldest on record November -16 °C

What to expectHeze through the year

Heze has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 6.0 °C in January to 32 °C in June, a swing of 27 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 147 days a year reach 25 °C, 74 of them reach 30 °C, 85 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 187 mm against 9 mm in January — 20 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	6.0 °C	9 mm	45 %
February	9.6 °C	14 mm	50 %
March	15.4 °C	22 mm	53 %
April	21.8 °C	38 mm	53 %
May	27.2 °C	58 mm	57 %
June	31.7 °C	78 mm	59 %
July	31.7 °C	187 mm	62 %
August	30.0 °C	153 mm	58 %
September	26.6 °C	80 mm	54 %
October	21.7 °C	31 mm	48 %
November	14.1 °C	27 mm	43 %
December	7.7 °C	9 mm	41 %

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	6.0 °C	-4.4 °C	0.5 °C	16.6 °C	-14.1 °C	0	0	29
February	9.6 °C	-1.6 °C	4.0 °C	23.6 °C	-14.1 °C	0	0	19
March	15.4 °C	3.9 °C	9.7 °C	29.7 °C	-6.9 °C	1	0	6
April	21.8 °C	10.6 °C	16.1 °C	35.2 °C	-1.2 °C	8	1	0
May	27.2 °C	16.3 °C	21.6 °C	37.8 °C	5.3 °C	22	8	0
June	31.7 °C	21.3 °C	26.4 °C	40.5 °C	12.5 °C	28	21	0
July	31.7 °C	23.7 °C	27.5 °C	42.0 °C	16.8 °C	30	22	0
August	30.0 °C	22.3 °C	26.0 °C	37.4 °C	12.0 °C	29	17	0
September	26.6 °C	17.5 °C	21.8 °C	36.5 °C	7.1 °C	21	4	0
October	21.7 °C	11.3 °C	16.2 °C	32.5 °C	0.1 °C	7	0	0
November	14.1 °C	3.5 °C	8.7 °C	26.7 °C	-16.2 °C	0	0	6
December	7.7 °C	-2.7 °C	2.3 °C	19.8 °C	-14.9 °C	0	0	25

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	9 mm	2	10 h/day	45 %	60 %	14 km/h
February	14 mm	3	11 h/day	50 %	58 %	15 km/h
March	22 mm	4	12 h/day	53 %	56 %	18 km/h
April	38 mm	5	13 h/day	53 %	58 %	19 km/h
May	58 mm	5	14 h/day	57 %	59 %	17 km/h
June	78 mm	7	15 h/day	59 %	60 %	16 km/h
July	187 mm	13	14 h/day	62 %	76 %	14 km/h
August	153 mm	13	13 h/day	58 %	79 %	13 km/h
September	80 mm	7	12 h/day	54 %	71 %	13 km/h
October	31 mm	4	11 h/day	48 %	63 %	14 km/h
November	27 mm	4	10 h/day	43 %	64 %	15 km/h
December	9 mm	2	9.8 h/day	41 %	62 %	14 km/h

How Heze 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
Heze	32 °C	-4.4 °C	707 mm	147
Puyang · China	32 °C	-4.9 °C	618 mm	151
Shangqiu · China	32 °C	-3.8 °C	788 mm	147
Jining · China	31 °C	-4.5 °C	764 mm	142
Zoucheng · China	31 °C	-4.4 °C	801 mm	139
Anyang · China	33 °C	-5.3 °C	567 mm	153

Where Heze ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in October	14th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in the world in October	15th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in April	19th of 50	96/100
Places with the best weather in the world in April	39th of 50	96/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Heze’s climate

When is the best time to visit Heze?

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

How hot does Heze get?

In June, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 74 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 42 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -4.4 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 85 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Heze?

July, averaging 187 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is January with 9 mm. The year as a whole averages 707 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 Heze 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: 35.239°, 115.474° (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.