Shuozhou climate

Name: Shuozhou
Address: CN

Shuozhou is warmest in July, with average highs of 27 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -15 °C. August is the wettest month (123 mm) and January the driest (2.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Shuozhou averages 539 mm of rain, 77 days above 25 °C and 171 days below freezing.

China · population 433,700 · 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 27 °C
Coldest month January -15 °C
Driest month January 3 mm
Wettest month August 123 mm
Least cloud December 26 % cloud
Hottest on record June 37 °C
Coldest on record December -32 °C

What to expectShuozhou through the year

Shuozhou has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -2.3 °C in January to 27 °C in July, a swing of 31 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 77 days a year reach 25 °C, 12 of them reach 30 °C, 171 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 123 mm against 3 mm in January — 42 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-2.3 °C	3 mm	31 %
February	2.4 °C	7 mm	37 %
March	8.9 °C	16 mm	42 %
April	16.1 °C	32 mm	45 %
May	22.2 °C	42 mm	49 %
June	26.3 °C	69 mm	54 %
July	27.3 °C	115 mm	55 %
August	25.4 °C	123 mm	51 %
September	20.8 °C	78 mm	49 %
October	14.3 °C	36 mm	38 %
November	5.7 °C	15 mm	30 %
December	-1.2 °C	3 mm	26 %

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	-2.3 °C	-15.0 °C	-8.9 °C	11.8 °C	-28.5 °C	0	0	31
February	2.4 °C	-10.1 °C	-4.1 °C	16.8 °C	-24.8 °C	0	0	28
March	8.9 °C	-4.2 °C	1.9 °C	23.5 °C	-24.1 °C	0	0	28
April	16.1 °C	0.9 °C	8.4 °C	31.8 °C	-17.9 °C	1	0	13
May	22.2 °C	7.5 °C	15.1 °C	34.1 °C	-3.8 °C	9	1	1
June	26.3 °C	13.2 °C	19.9 °C	37.1 °C	3.7 °C	21	5	0
July	27.3 °C	16.3 °C	21.7 °C	36.9 °C	7.6 °C	25	5	0
August	25.4 °C	14.9 °C	20.1 °C	33.0 °C	6.0 °C	18	1	0
September	20.8 °C	9.4 °C	15.0 °C	31.7 °C	-1.8 °C	3	0	0
October	14.3 °C	2.0 °C	7.8 °C	25.7 °C	-7.9 °C	0	0	11
November	5.7 °C	-5.4 °C	-0.5 °C	18.9 °C	-24.6 °C	0	0	28
December	-1.2 °C	-12.4 °C	-7.2 °C	12.3 °C	-31.6 °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	31 %	50 %	15 km/h
February	7 mm	2	11 h/day	37 %	45 %	16 km/h
March	16 mm	4	12 h/day	42 %	45 %	18 km/h
April	32 mm	5	13 h/day	45 %	47 %	18 km/h
May	42 mm	6	14 h/day	49 %	48 %	18 km/h
June	69 mm	10	15 h/day	54 %	56 %	15 km/h
July	115 mm	12	15 h/day	55 %	69 %	12 km/h
August	123 mm	11	14 h/day	51 %	71 %	12 km/h
September	78 mm	9	12 h/day	49 %	68 %	13 km/h
October	36 mm	6	11 h/day	38 %	63 %	15 km/h
November	15 mm	3	10 h/day	30 %	58 %	15 km/h
December	3 mm	1	9.4 h/day	26 %	51 %	15 km/h

How Shuozhou 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
Shuozhou	27 °C	-15 °C	539 mm	77
Xinzhou · China	28 °C	-12 °C	474 mm	97
Datong · China	28 °C	-16 °C	442 mm	86
Taiyuan · China	30 °C	-9.2 °C	477 mm	112
Hohhot · China	28 °C	-18 °C	404 mm	80
Jinzhong · China	29 °C	-9.1 °C	438 mm	108
Yangquan · China	29 °C	-8.8 °C	538 mm	104

Where Shuozhou ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in August	49th of 50	84/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Shuozhou’s climate

When is the best time to visit Shuozhou?

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

How hot does Shuozhou get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 27 °C. About 12 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 171 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Shuozhou?

August, averaging 123 mm over 11 days with rain. The driest month is January with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 539 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 Shuozhou 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: 39.316°, 112.422° (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.