Lüliang climate

Name: Lüliang
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Lüliang is warmest in July, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -9.5 °C. August is the wettest month (119 mm) and January the driest (5.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Lüliang averages 568 mm of rain, 105 days above 25 °C and 128 days below freezing.

China · population 3,346,500 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month January -9.5 °C
Driest month January 5 mm
Wettest month August 119 mm
Least cloud December 31 % cloud
Hottest on record July 39 °C
Coldest on record December -25 °C

What to expectLüliang through the year

Lüliang has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 0.5 °C in January to 30 °C in July, a swing of 29 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 105 days a year reach 25 °C, 37 of them reach 30 °C, 128 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 119 mm against 5 mm in January — 22 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	0.5 °C	5 mm	37 %
February	4.9 °C	11 mm	42 %
March	11.2 °C	22 mm	46 %
April	18.6 °C	35 mm	48 %
May	24.3 °C	43 mm	51 %
June	28.6 °C	62 mm	54 %
July	29.6 °C	119 mm	55 %
August	27.5 °C	119 mm	52 %
September	22.8 °C	78 mm	52 %
October	16.3 °C	47 mm	44 %
November	8.4 °C	21 mm	34 %
December	1.5 °C	6 mm	31 %

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	0.5 °C	-9.5 °C	-4.5 °C	14.5 °C	-24.3 °C	0	0	31
February	4.9 °C	-5.6 °C	-0.4 °C	18.6 °C	-20.4 °C	0	0	27
March	11.2 °C	-0.4 °C	5.4 °C	25.9 °C	-14.9 °C	0	0	17
April	18.6 °C	5.9 °C	12.3 °C	34.1 °C	-8.7 °C	3	0	2
May	24.3 °C	11.8 °C	18.2 °C	34.5 °C	-0.7 °C	14	3	0
June	28.6 °C	16.8 °C	22.8 °C	38.4 °C	8.4 °C	25	12	0
July	29.6 °C	19.4 °C	24.5 °C	38.6 °C	12.5 °C	28	15	0
August	27.5 °C	17.9 °C	22.7 °C	34.4 °C	8.5 °C	25	7	0
September	22.8 °C	12.9 °C	17.7 °C	34.9 °C	2.0 °C	9	1	0
October	16.3 °C	5.9 °C	11.1 °C	29.6 °C	-5.5 °C	0	0	2
November	8.4 °C	-1.2 °C	3.5 °C	21.5 °C	-19.2 °C	0	0	19
December	1.5 °C	-7.5 °C	-3.1 °C	13.4 °C	-24.7 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	2	9.9 h/day	37 %	44 %	13 km/h
February	11 mm	3	11 h/day	42 %	45 %	15 km/h
March	22 mm	5	12 h/day	46 %	46 %	17 km/h
April	35 mm	6	13 h/day	48 %	44 %	18 km/h
May	43 mm	6	14 h/day	51 %	44 %	17 km/h
June	62 mm	8	15 h/day	54 %	50 %	15 km/h
July	119 mm	13	15 h/day	55 %	63 %	13 km/h
August	119 mm	12	14 h/day	52 %	67 %	12 km/h
September	78 mm	9	12 h/day	52 %	65 %	13 km/h
October	47 mm	6	11 h/day	44 %	61 %	13 km/h
November	21 mm	4	10 h/day	34 %	56 %	14 km/h
December	6 mm	2	9.6 h/day	31 %	46 %	14 km/h

How Lüliang 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
Lüliang	30 °C	-9.5 °C	568 mm	105
Taiyuan · China	30 °C	-9.2 °C	477 mm	112
Jinzhong · China	29 °C	-9.1 °C	438 mm	108
Linfen · China	31 °C	-5.9 °C	633 mm	131
Xinzhou · China	28 °C	-12 °C	474 mm	97
Yan’an · China	30 °C	-8.6 °C	610 mm	109
Yangquan · China	29 °C	-8.8 °C	538 mm	104

Where Lüliang ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in May	11th of 50	94/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Lüliang’s climate

When is the best time to visit Lüliang?

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

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 37 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 -9.5 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 128 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Lüliang?

August, averaging 119 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is January with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 568 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 Lüliang 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: 37.519°, 111.144° (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.