Yueyang climate

Name: Yueyang
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Yueyang is warmest in July, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 1.6 °C. June is the wettest month (293 mm) and December the driest (41 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Yueyang averages 1,668 mm of rain, 151 days above 25 °C and 16 days below freezing.

China · population 991,465 · 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 32 °C
Coldest month January 1.6 °C
Driest month December 41 mm
Wettest month June 293 mm
Least cloud December 54 % cloud
Hottest on record August 39 °C
Coldest on record January -9.4 °C

What to expectYueyang through the year

Yueyang has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 8.9 °C in January to 32 °C in July, a swing of 24 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 151 days a year reach 25 °C, 78 of them reach 30 °C, 16 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 293 mm against 41 mm in December — 7.1 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	8.9 °C	66 mm	63 %
February	11.5 °C	89 mm	67 %
March	15.9 °C	141 mm	71 %
April	21.9 °C	206 mm	71 %
May	26.3 °C	238 mm	70 %
June	29.2 °C	293 mm	76 %
July	32.1 °C	230 mm	70 %
August	31.8 °C	132 mm	62 %
September	28.1 °C	86 mm	56 %
October	22.9 °C	73 mm	56 %
November	16.8 °C	72 mm	56 %
December	11.1 °C	41 mm	54 %

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	8.9 °C	1.6 °C	5.3 °C	25.2 °C	-9.4 °C	0	0	9
February	11.5 °C	4.0 °C	7.9 °C	26.2 °C	-7.0 °C	0	0	3
March	15.9 °C	8.3 °C	12.1 °C	30.5 °C	-2.2 °C	1	0	0
April	21.9 °C	14.4 °C	18.0 °C	32.8 °C	4.0 °C	8	0	0
May	26.3 °C	19.2 °C	22.6 °C	34.8 °C	10.4 °C	20	5	0
June	29.2 °C	23.2 °C	26.0 °C	35.7 °C	15.7 °C	27	13	0
July	32.1 °C	26.3 °C	28.9 °C	38.7 °C	18.9 °C	30	24	0
August	31.8 °C	25.5 °C	28.4 °C	39.1 °C	17.4 °C	30	23	0
September	28.1 °C	21.2 °C	24.4 °C	37.2 °C	13.3 °C	24	10	0
October	22.9 °C	15.6 °C	19.0 °C	35.7 °C	5.9 °C	10	1	0
November	16.8 °C	9.5 °C	13.1 °C	30.1 °C	-1.8 °C	1	0	0
December	11.1 °C	3.7 °C	7.4 °C	22.1 °C	-5.6 °C	0	0	3

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	66 mm	10	10 h/day	63 %	76 %	15 km/h
February	89 mm	11	11 h/day	67 %	77 %	15 km/h
March	141 mm	15	12 h/day	71 %	78 %	16 km/h
April	206 mm	15	13 h/day	71 %	78 %	17 km/h
May	238 mm	14	14 h/day	70 %	78 %	16 km/h
June	293 mm	16	14 h/day	76 %	81 %	15 km/h
July	230 mm	14	14 h/day	70 %	78 %	17 km/h
August	132 mm	13	13 h/day	62 %	78 %	15 km/h
September	86 mm	9	12 h/day	56 %	76 %	15 km/h
October	73 mm	8	11 h/day	56 %	75 %	14 km/h
November	72 mm	9	11 h/day	56 %	76 %	15 km/h
December	41 mm	7	10 h/day	54 %	74 %	15 km/h

How Yueyang 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
Yueyang	32 °C	1.6 °C	1,668 mm	151
Xindi · China	32 °C	1.4 °C	1,529 mm	152
Heshan · China	32 °C	1.7 °C	1,679 mm	148
Xiantao · China	32 °C	-0.2 °C	1,466 mm	153
Xianning · China	32 °C	1.0 °C	1,553 mm	155
Changsha · China	33 °C	2.2 °C	1,730 mm	161
Jingzhou · China	31 °C	0.5 °C	1,350 mm	148

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Yueyang’s climate

When is the best time to visit Yueyang?

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

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 78 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 1.6 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 16 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Yueyang?

June, averaging 293 mm over 16 days with rain. The driest month is December with 41 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,668 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 Yueyang 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.