Ordos climate

Name: Ordos
Address: CN

Ordos is warmest in July, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -15 °C. July is the wettest month (97 mm) and December the driest (3.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ordos averages 406 mm of rain, 78 days above 25 °C and 164 days below freezing.

China · 2,149 m elevation · population 1,940,653 · 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 -15 °C
Driest month December 3 mm
Wettest month July 97 mm
Least cloud December 27 % cloud
Hottest on record July 37 °C
Coldest on record January -29 °C

What to expectOrdos through the year

Ordos has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -3.4 °C in January to 28 °C in July, a swing of 32 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 78 days a year reach 25 °C, 17 of them reach 30 °C, 164 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 97 mm against 3 mm in December — 32 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-3.4 °C	3 mm	32 %
February	1.2 °C	5 mm	37 %
March	8.0 °C	15 mm	42 %
April	15.8 °C	21 mm	44 %
May	21.8 °C	34 mm	47 %
June	26.6 °C	40 mm	51 %
July	28.0 °C	97 mm	51 %
August	25.7 °C	88 mm	48 %
September	20.5 °C	61 mm	46 %
October	13.5 °C	26 mm	36 %
November	4.9 °C	13 mm	29 %
December	-2.1 °C	3 mm	27 %

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	-3.4 °C	-14.9 °C	-9.2 °C	10.9 °C	-29.2 °C	0	0	31
February	1.2 °C	-10.5 °C	-4.6 °C	14.0 °C	-24.5 °C	0	0	28
March	8.0 °C	-4.2 °C	1.9 °C	23.4 °C	-19.2 °C	0	0	27
April	15.8 °C	2.5 °C	9.4 °C	32.1 °C	-8.9 °C	1	0	9
May	21.8 °C	9.3 °C	15.9 °C	32.7 °C	-2.4 °C	9	1	0
June	26.6 °C	14.8 °C	21.0 °C	37.0 °C	5.6 °C	21	5	0
July	28.0 °C	17.3 °C	22.8 °C	37.1 °C	9.5 °C	25	9	0
August	25.7 °C	15.4 °C	20.6 °C	33.6 °C	5.5 °C	19	3	0
September	20.5 °C	9.7 °C	15.1 °C	33.5 °C	-1.9 °C	3	0	0
October	13.5 °C	1.8 °C	7.6 °C	24.9 °C	-9.2 °C	0	0	10
November	4.9 °C	-5.6 °C	-0.6 °C	18.9 °C	-19.4 °C	0	0	28
December	-2.1 °C	-12.2 °C	-7.4 °C	9.0 °C	-26.5 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	3 mm	1	9.7 h/day	32 %	47 %	19 km/h
February	5 mm	2	11 h/day	37 %	43 %	21 km/h
March	15 mm	3	12 h/day	42 %	39 %	24 km/h
April	21 mm	4	13 h/day	44 %	36 %	25 km/h
May	34 mm	4	14 h/day	47 %	37 %	25 km/h
June	40 mm	6	15 h/day	51 %	44 %	22 km/h
July	97 mm	9	15 h/day	51 %	57 %	19 km/h
August	88 mm	10	14 h/day	48 %	63 %	18 km/h
September	61 mm	7	12 h/day	46 %	61 %	20 km/h
October	26 mm	5	11 h/day	36 %	57 %	20 km/h
November	13 mm	2	10 h/day	29 %	53 %	21 km/h
December	3 mm	1	9.4 h/day	27 %	47 %	20 km/h

How Ordos 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
Ordos	28 °C	-15 °C	406 mm	78
Baotou · China	30 °C	-17 °C	351 mm	99
Hohhot · China	28 °C	-18 °C	404 mm	80
Shuozhou · China	27 °C	-15 °C	539 mm	77
Bayan Nur · China	32 °C	-15 °C	194 mm	116
Wuhai · China	31 °C	-13 °C	174 mm	113
Lüliang · China	30 °C	-9.5 °C	568 mm	105

Where Ordos ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in August	31st of 50	86/100
The coolest places in Asia in October	50th of 50	13 °C

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Ordos’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ordos?

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

How hot does Ordos get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 17 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -15 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 164 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Ordos?

July, averaging 97 mm over 9 days with rain. The driest month is December with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 406 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 Ordos 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: 39.609°, 109.782° , 2149 m above sea level (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.