Wafangdian climate

Name: Wafangdian
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Wafangdian is warmest in July, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -10 °C. August is the wettest month (163 mm) and January the driest (5.1 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Wafangdian averages 668 mm of rain, 93 days above 25 °C and 130 days below freezing.

China · population 454,338 · 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 -10 °C
Driest month January 5 mm
Wettest month August 163 mm
Least cloud January 34 % cloud
Hottest on record August 39 °C
Coldest on record January -31 °C

What to expectWafangdian through the year

Wafangdian has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -1.9 °C in January to 28 °C in July, a swing of 31 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 93 days a year reach 25 °C, 16 of them reach 30 °C, 130 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. August averages 163 mm against 5 mm in January — 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	-1.9 °C	5 mm	34 %
February	1.8 °C	10 mm	36 %
March	7.9 °C	16 mm	39 %
April	15.4 °C	38 mm	43 %
May	21.7 °C	61 mm	49 %
June	26.0 °C	100 mm	58 %
July	28.4 °C	156 mm	63 %
August	28.0 °C	163 mm	57 %
September	23.9 °C	52 mm	46 %
October	16.6 °C	33 mm	38 %
November	7.7 °C	25 mm	39 %
December	0.5 °C	10 mm	36 %

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	-1.9 °C	-10.5 °C	-6.2 °C	8.1 °C	-31.1 °C	0	0	31
February	1.8 °C	-6.9 °C	-2.9 °C	13.6 °C	-22.0 °C	0	0	27
March	7.9 °C	-1.5 °C	2.7 °C	21.2 °C	-12.2 °C	0	0	21
April	15.4 °C	5.5 °C	10.1 °C	27.1 °C	-3.2 °C	0	0	2
May	21.7 °C	11.9 °C	16.4 °C	34.3 °C	4.0 °C	6	0	0
June	26.0 °C	17.3 °C	21.3 °C	35.3 °C	8.5 °C	19	3	0
July	28.4 °C	21.3 °C	24.5 °C	35.9 °C	15.1 °C	28	8	0
August	28.0 °C	21.0 °C	24.2 °C	39.1 °C	11.7 °C	28	5	0
September	23.9 °C	15.6 °C	19.5 °C	32.3 °C	5.9 °C	11	0	0
October	16.6 °C	8.2 °C	12.2 °C	27.4 °C	-3.0 °C	0	0	1
November	7.7 °C	-0.3 °C	3.6 °C	19.4 °C	-13.7 °C	0	0	17
December	0.5 °C	-7.0 °C	-3.3 °C	11.8 °C	-17.4 °C	0	0	30

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	5 mm	1	9.7 h/day	34 %	59 %	18 km/h
February	10 mm	2	11 h/day	36 %	56 %	18 km/h
March	16 mm	3	12 h/day	39 %	57 %	19 km/h
April	38 mm	6	13 h/day	43 %	59 %	20 km/h
May	61 mm	7	14 h/day	49 %	63 %	18 km/h
June	100 mm	9	15 h/day	58 %	73 %	16 km/h
July	156 mm	11	15 h/day	63 %	80 %	15 km/h
August	163 mm	12	14 h/day	57 %	80 %	14 km/h
September	52 mm	6	12 h/day	46 %	72 %	15 km/h
October	33 mm	5	11 h/day	38 %	67 %	17 km/h
November	25 mm	4	10 h/day	39 %	65 %	18 km/h
December	10 mm	2	9.4 h/day	36 %	60 %	18 km/h

How Wafangdian 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
Wafangdian	28 °C	-10 °C	668 mm	93
Dalian · China	27 °C	-4.8 °C	621 mm	54
Yingkou · China	28 °C	-11 °C	662 mm	82
Haicheng · China	29 °C	-14 °C	676 mm	103
Huludao · China	28 °C	-10 °C	555 mm	92
Lianshan · China	28 °C	-9.8 °C	555 mm	83
Panjin · China	29 °C	-13 °C	674 mm	105

Where Wafangdian ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in May	28th of 50	93/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Wafangdian’s climate

When is the best time to visit Wafangdian?

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

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 16 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 -10 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 130 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Wafangdian?

August, averaging 163 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is January with 5 mm. The year as a whole averages 668 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 Wafangdian 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: 39.618°, 122.008° (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.