Panzhihua climate

Name: Panzhihua
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Panzhihua is warmest in May, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 8.2 °C. July is the wettest month (364 mm) and December the driest (13 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Panzhihua averages 1,632 mm of rain and 215 days above 25 °C.

China · population 787,177 · 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 May 31 °C
Coldest month January 8.2 °C
Driest month December 13 mm
Wettest month July 364 mm
Least cloud February 22 % cloud
Hottest on record June 40 °C
Coldest on record February 1.4 °C

What to expectPanzhihua through the year

Panzhihua has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 20 °C in January to 31 °C in May, a swing of 12 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 215 days a year reach 25 °C, 78 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 364 mm against 13 mm in December — 28 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	20.1 °C	18 mm	23 %
February	23.5 °C	14 mm	22 %
March	27.7 °C	22 mm	29 %
April	30.6 °C	40 mm	40 %
May	31.1 °C	111 mm	55 %
June	29.4 °C	287 mm	82 %
July	28.6 °C	364 mm	88 %
August	28.5 °C	317 mm	81 %
September	26.5 °C	279 mm	76 %
October	24.0 °C	137 mm	59 %
November	21.3 °C	31 mm	37 %
December	18.9 °C	13 mm	29 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	20.1 °C	8.2 °C	14.4 °C	27.3 °C	1.9 °C	1	0
February	23.5 °C	10.5 °C	17.5 °C	32.3 °C	1.4 °C	12	0
March	27.7 °C	14.1 °C	21.5 °C	35.2 °C	5.4 °C	25	9
April	30.6 °C	17.7 °C	24.6 °C	38.1 °C	9.1 °C	26	20
May	31.1 °C	20.6 °C	26.0 °C	40.2 °C	12.6 °C	27	20
June	29.4 °C	21.8 °C	25.5 °C	40.4 °C	15.7 °C	27	12
July	28.6 °C	21.6 °C	25.0 °C	33.4 °C	17.7 °C	29	9
August	28.5 °C	21.3 °C	24.8 °C	33.5 °C	16.3 °C	29	8
September	26.5 °C	19.9 °C	23.1 °C	32.1 °C	13.1 °C	23	1
October	24.0 °C	16.9 °C	20.5 °C	29.6 °C	10.2 °C	14	0
November	21.3 °C	12.0 °C	16.8 °C	27.1 °C	4.4 °C	2	0
December	18.9 °C	8.5 °C	13.8 °C	25.5 °C	2.0 °C	0	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	18 mm	3	11 h/day	23 %	55 %	9.2 km/h
February	14 mm	3	11 h/day	22 %	44 %	11 km/h
March	22 mm	4	12 h/day	29 %	39 %	13 km/h
April	40 mm	6	13 h/day	40 %	42 %	12 km/h
May	111 mm	12	13 h/day	55 %	53 %	9.5 km/h
June	287 mm	22	14 h/day	82 %	73 %	6.7 km/h
July	364 mm	27	14 h/day	88 %	81 %	5.7 km/h
August	317 mm	25	13 h/day	81 %	81 %	5.4 km/h
September	279 mm	23	12 h/day	76 %	81 %	5.4 km/h
October	137 mm	16	12 h/day	59 %	78 %	6.0 km/h
November	31 mm	5	11 h/day	37 %	71 %	6.5 km/h
December	13 mm	3	10 h/day	29 %	67 %	7.1 km/h

How Panzhihua 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
Panzhihua	31 °C	8.2 °C	1,632 mm	215
Lijiang · China	23 °C	-0.3 °C	1,514 mm	15
Xichang · China	26 °C	2.5 °C	1,169 mm	105
Chuxiong · China	26 °C	5.2 °C	1,036 mm	96
Dali · China	24 °C	4.6 °C	1,249 mm	47
Kunming · China	25 °C	4.9 °C	1,463 mm	55
Zhaotong · China	23 °C	-2.3 °C	996 mm	35

Where Panzhihua ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in February	6th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in the world in February	8th of 50	97/100
Places with the best weather in Asia in November	40th of 50	95/100
Places with the best weather in Asia year-round	47th of 50	76/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Panzhihua’s climate

When is the best time to visit Panzhihua?

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

How hot does Panzhihua get?

In May, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 78 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 8.2 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Panzhihua?

July, averaging 364 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is December with 13 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,632 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 Panzhihua 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: 26.585°, 101.713° (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.