Hezhou climate

Name: Hezhou
Address: CN

Hezhou is warmest in August, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 6.1 °C. May is the wettest month (334 mm) and October the driest (65 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Hezhou averages 2,125 mm of rain, 195 days above 25 °C and 4 days below freezing.

China · population 1,005,490 · 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 August 31 °C
Coldest month January 6.1 °C
Driest month October 65 mm
Wettest month May 334 mm
Least cloud October 46 % cloud
Hottest on record August 38 °C
Coldest on record December -4.0 °C

What to expectHezhou through the year

Hezhou has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 14 °C in January to 31 °C in August, a swing of 17 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 195 days a year reach 25 °C, 87 of them reach 30 °C, 4 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. May averages 334 mm against 65 mm in October — 5.2 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	14.3 °C	100 mm	68 %
February	16.4 °C	108 mm	75 %
March	19.4 °C	235 mm	82 %
April	24.2 °C	288 mm	79 %
May	27.6 °C	334 mm	79 %
June	29.5 °C	330 mm	85 %
July	30.8 °C	220 mm	78 %
August	31.1 °C	194 mm	70 %
September	29.7 °C	105 mm	57 %
October	26.7 °C	65 mm	46 %
November	21.8 °C	74 mm	50 %
December	16.4 °C	72 mm	52 %

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	14.3 °C	6.1 °C	10.4 °C	25.1 °C	-3.2 °C	0	0	2
February	16.4 °C	8.7 °C	12.7 °C	29.9 °C	-3.1 °C	1	0	1
March	19.4 °C	12.4 °C	16.0 °C	29.6 °C	-0.4 °C	4	0	0
April	24.2 °C	17.4 °C	20.6 °C	32.9 °C	4.9 °C	15	0	0
May	27.6 °C	21.1 °C	24.1 °C	33.4 °C	12.1 °C	25	6	0
June	29.5 °C	23.7 °C	26.2 °C	34.4 °C	14.8 °C	29	14	0
July	30.8 °C	24.5 °C	27.3 °C	37.1 °C	19.2 °C	31	22	0
August	31.1 °C	24.5 °C	27.5 °C	37.5 °C	19.2 °C	31	23	0
September	29.7 °C	22.3 °C	25.8 °C	37.1 °C	13.9 °C	28	16	0
October	26.7 °C	17.7 °C	22.0 °C	33.5 °C	5.4 °C	23	5	0
November	21.8 °C	12.6 °C	17.0 °C	30.8 °C	1.0 °C	8	0	0
December	16.4 °C	7.1 °C	11.8 °C	26.4 °C	-4.0 °C	0	0	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	100 mm	12	11 h/day	68 %	79 %	11 km/h
February	108 mm	14	11 h/day	75 %	82 %	11 km/h
March	235 mm	21	12 h/day	82 %	85 %	11 km/h
April	288 mm	21	13 h/day	79 %	86 %	11 km/h
May	334 mm	23	13 h/day	79 %	86 %	9.8 km/h
June	330 mm	25	14 h/day	85 %	88 %	9.9 km/h
July	220 mm	23	14 h/day	78 %	86 %	11 km/h
August	194 mm	21	13 h/day	70 %	84 %	9.1 km/h
September	105 mm	13	12 h/day	57 %	80 %	9.7 km/h
October	65 mm	7	12 h/day	46 %	73 %	10 km/h
November	74 mm	8	11 h/day	50 %	74 %	11 km/h
December	72 mm	8	11 h/day	52 %	74 %	11 km/h

How Hezhou 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
Hezhou	31 °C	6.1 °C	2,125 mm	195
Wuzhou · China	31 °C	9.1 °C	1,811 mm	224
Guilin · China	31 °C	5.4 °C	2,186 mm	171
Qingyuan · China	31 °C	9.1 °C	2,471 mm	216
Yunfu · China	31 °C	11 °C	1,646 mm	236
Zhaoqing · China	31 °C	10 °C	1,814 mm	231
Sanshui · China	32 °C	10 °C	1,981 mm	230

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Hezhou’s climate

When is the best time to visit Hezhou?

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

How hot does Hezhou get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 87 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 6.1 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 4 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Hezhou?

May, averaging 334 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is October with 65 mm. The year as a whole averages 2,125 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 Hezhou 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: 24.404°, 111.567° (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.