Xinzhou climate

Name: Xinzhou
Address: CN

Xinzhou is warmest in July, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -12 °C. July is the wettest month (106 mm) and January the driest (2.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Xinzhou averages 474 mm of rain, 97 days above 25 °C and 147 days below freezing.

China · population 544,683 · 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 -12 °C
Driest month January 3 mm
Wettest month July 106 mm
Least cloud December 27 % cloud
Hottest on record June 39 °C
Coldest on record December -28 °C

What to expectXinzhou through the year

Xinzhou has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 1.2 °C in January to 28 °C in July, a swing of 29 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 97 days a year reach 25 °C, 27 of them reach 30 °C, 147 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in June.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 106 mm against 3 mm in January — 37 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	1.2 °C	3 mm	32 %
February	5.5 °C	7 mm	38 %
March	11.5 °C	15 mm	43 %
April	18.4 °C	31 mm	46 %
May	24.2 °C	38 mm	50 %
June	27.9 °C	55 mm	55 %
July	28.4 °C	106 mm	58 %
August	26.6 °C	106 mm	55 %
September	22.4 °C	62 mm	51 %
October	16.5 °C	33 mm	40 %
November	8.5 °C	15 mm	31 %
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	1.2 °C	-11.8 °C	-5.6 °C	12.9 °C	-28.2 °C	0	0	31
February	5.5 °C	-6.8 °C	-1.1 °C	18.4 °C	-17.5 °C	0	0	28
March	11.5 °C	-1.7 °C	4.4 °C	26.6 °C	-17.4 °C	0	0	23
April	18.4 °C	3.8 °C	11.0 °C	34.4 °C	-12.1 °C	3	0	6
May	24.2 °C	10.4 °C	17.3 °C	36.5 °C	-1.8 °C	14	3	0
June	27.9 °C	15.7 °C	21.8 °C	38.6 °C	7.0 °C	24	10	0
July	28.4 °C	18.6 °C	23.3 °C	37.7 °C	10.7 °C	26	10	0
August	26.6 °C	17.3 °C	21.7 °C	33.2 °C	9.5 °C	23	4	0
September	22.4 °C	12.0 °C	17.0 °C	33.1 °C	0.5 °C	7	1	0
October	16.5 °C	4.5 °C	10.2 °C	27.2 °C	-4.8 °C	0	0	4
November	8.5 °C	-2.8 °C	2.2 °C	20.7 °C	-19.8 °C	0	0	24
December	2.1 °C	-9.3 °C	-4.1 °C	12.6 °C	-28.4 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	3 mm	1	9.8 h/day	32 %	44 %	10 km/h
February	7 mm	2	11 h/day	38 %	43 %	12 km/h
March	15 mm	4	12 h/day	43 %	46 %	14 km/h
April	31 mm	5	13 h/day	46 %	47 %	15 km/h
May	38 mm	6	14 h/day	50 %	48 %	14 km/h
June	55 mm	8	15 h/day	55 %	57 %	12 km/h
July	106 mm	12	15 h/day	58 %	71 %	9.7 km/h
August	106 mm	11	14 h/day	55 %	73 %	9.0 km/h
September	62 mm	9	12 h/day	51 %	68 %	9.7 km/h
October	33 mm	5	11 h/day	40 %	63 %	11 km/h
November	15 mm	3	10 h/day	31 %	57 %	10 km/h
December	3 mm	1	9.5 h/day	27 %	47 %	10 km/h

How Xinzhou 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
Xinzhou	28 °C	-12 °C	474 mm	97
Taiyuan · China	30 °C	-9.2 °C	477 mm	112
Jinzhong · China	29 °C	-9.1 °C	438 mm	108
Yangquan · China	29 °C	-8.8 °C	538 mm	104
Shuozhou · China	27 °C	-15 °C	539 mm	77
Shijiazhuang · China	32 °C	-6.7 °C	519 mm	146
Lüliang · China	30 °C	-9.5 °C	568 mm	105

Where Xinzhou ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
Places with the best weather in Asia in May	6thof 50	95/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Xinzhou’s climate

When is the best time to visit Xinzhou?

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

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 27 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 -12 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 147 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Xinzhou?

July, averaging 106 mm over 12 days with rain. The driest month is January with 3 mm. The year as a whole averages 474 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 Xinzhou 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
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.