Liupanshui climate

Name: Liupanshui
Address: CN

Liupanshui is warmest in July, with average highs of 24 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 0.9 °C. June is the wettest month (269 mm) and February the driest (40 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Liupanshui averages 1,500 mm of rain, 40 days above 25 °C and 25 days below freezing.

China · population 1,320,825 · 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 24 °C
Coldest month January 0.9 °C
Driest month February 40 mm
Wettest month June 269 mm
Least cloud February 70 % cloud
Hottest on record June 31 °C
Coldest on record January -13 °C

What to expectLiupanshui through the year

Liupanshui has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 9.1 °C in January to 24 °C in July, a swing of 15 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 40 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C, 25 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 269 mm against 40 mm in February — 6.7 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	9.1 °C	46 mm	76 %
February	12.1 °C	40 mm	70 %
March	16.1 °C	66 mm	71 %
April	19.5 °C	102 mm	72 %
May	21.3 °C	169 mm	77 %
June	22.7 °C	269 mm	89 %
July	23.9 °C	236 mm	86 %
August	23.7 °C	184 mm	79 %
September	21.0 °C	153 mm	78 %
October	16.8 °C	137 mm	83 %
November	13.9 °C	57 mm	74 %
December	9.6 °C	41 mm	76 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	9.1 °C	0.9 °C	4.5 °C	21.9 °C	-12.7 °C	0	12
February	12.1 °C	2.5 °C	6.9 °C	27.2 °C	-5.9 °C	0	6
March	16.1 °C	5.7 °C	10.5 °C	28.1 °C	-4.3 °C	1	1
April	19.5 °C	9.9 °C	14.2 °C	29.7 °C	-0.3 °C	6	0
May	21.3 °C	13.1 °C	16.8 °C	30.5 °C	4.6 °C	6	0
June	22.7 °C	15.9 °C	18.9 °C	31.0 °C	7.5 °C	6	0
July	23.9 °C	17.0 °C	20.0 °C	28.8 °C	10.0 °C	10	0
August	23.7 °C	16.4 °C	19.6 °C	28.4 °C	9.9 °C	9	0
September	21.0 °C	14.2 °C	17.3 °C	28.5 °C	5.2 °C	2	0
October	16.8 °C	10.7 °C	13.5 °C	25.8 °C	1.3 °C	0	0
November	13.9 °C	6.3 °C	9.8 °C	23.8 °C	-5.0 °C	0	0
December	9.6 °C	2.1 °C	5.5 °C	20.3 °C	-9.9 °C	0	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	46 mm	12	11 h/day	76 %	83 %	12 km/h
February	40 mm	11	11 h/day	70 %	79 %	14 km/h
March	66 mm	15	12 h/day	71 %	78 %	14 km/h
April	102 mm	17	13 h/day	72 %	78 %	14 km/h
May	169 mm	20	13 h/day	77 %	80 %	13 km/h
June	269 mm	23	14 h/day	89 %	85 %	11 km/h
July	236 mm	23	14 h/day	86 %	86 %	12 km/h
August	184 mm	21	13 h/day	79 %	85 %	11 km/h
September	153 mm	18	12 h/day	78 %	84 %	12 km/h
October	137 mm	20	12 h/day	83 %	86 %	11 km/h
November	57 mm	13	11 h/day	74 %	84 %	12 km/h
December	41 mm	12	10 h/day	76 %	85 %	11 km/h

How Liupanshui 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
Liupanshui	24 °C	0.9 °C	1,500 mm	40
Bijie · China	26 °C	-0.1 °C	1,334 mm	72
Anshun · China	25 °C	1.4 °C	1,611 mm	70
Zhaotong · China	23 °C	-2.3 °C	996 mm	35
Qujing · China	23 °C	2.7 °C	1,276 mm	40
Xingyi · China	27 °C	4.2 °C	1,474 mm	137
Guiyang · China	27 °C	1.4 °C	1,454 mm	100

Where Liupanshui ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Asia in August	32nd of 50	24 °C
The coolest places in Asia in July	33rd of 50	24 °C
The coolest places in Asia in June	42nd of 50	23 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Liupanshui’s climate

When is the best time to visit Liupanshui?

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 February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Liupanshui get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 24 °C. About 0 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 0.9 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 25 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Liupanshui?

June, averaging 269 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is February with 40 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,500 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 Liupanshui 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: 26.594°, 104.833° (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.