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Beijing Climate & Temperature

⛺ Beijing has a humid continental climate with severe, dry winters, hot summers and strong seasonality (Köppen-Geiger classification: Dwa).hot summer continental climate with dry winters (Dwa)

⛳ Beijing is situated in or near the warm temperate dry forest biome.

🌡️ The annual average temperature is 11.8 degrees Celsius (53.2 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.

🐬 Average monthly temperatures vary by 30.2 °C (54.4°F). This indicates that the continentality type is continental, subtype truly continental.

☔ Total annual precipitation averages 576.9 mm (22.7 inches) which is equivalent to 576.9 Litres/m² (14.15 Gallons/ft²).

Beijing Climate Graph

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In the winter time records indicate temperatures by day reach 3°C (37.3°F) on average falling to -7.7°C (18.1°F) overnight.

In spring time temperatures climb reaching 19.2°C (66.6°F) generally in the afternoon with overnight lows of 6.6°C (43.9°F).

During summer average high temperatures are 30.2°C (86.4°F) and average low temperatures are 20.1°C (68.1°F).

Come autumn/ fall temperatures decrease achieving average highs of 18.3°C (64.9°F) during the day and lows of 7°C (44.7°F) generally shortly after sunrise.

✨ The longest day of the year is 14:50 long on the 22 of June and the shortest day is 9:09 long on the 21 of December.

🌞 On average there are 2707 hours of sunshine per year. Visit the sunshine and daylight section to check monthly details including how high in the sky the sun reaches each month.

🐇Were you to burrow down through the centre of the Earth from Beijing you would pop up nearest to the climate station at San Antonio, Argentina where you would find a Subtropical steppe climate (Warm temperate desert scrub biome).

🌍Beijing, China is at 39°55'N, 116°16'E, 55 m (180 ft). Check the location on the map.

Beijing Climate Table

Average Max Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2 (35) 4 (39) 11 (52) 20 (68) 26 (80) 30 (87) 31 (87) 30 (85) 26 (78) 19 (66) 10 (50) 3 (38) 18 (64)
Average Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
-4 (24) -2 (29) 5 (41) 14 (56) 20 (68) 24 (76) 26 (79) 25 (76) 20 (67) 13 (55) 4 (40) -2 (28) 12 (53)
Average Min Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
-9 (15) -7 (20) -1 (31) 7 (45) 13 (56) 18 (65) 22 (71) 20 (69) 14 (58) 7 (45) 0 (31) -7 (20) 7 (44)
Average Precipitation mm (in)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
3 (0) 6 (0) 9 (0) 26 (1) 29 (1) 71 (3) 176 (7) 182 (7) 49 (2) 19 (1) 6 (0) 2 (0) 577 (23)
Number of Wet Days (probability of rain on a day %)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
3 (10) 3 (11) 3 (10) 4 (13) 6 (19) 8 (27) 13 (42) 11 (35) 7 (23) 3 (10) 3 (10) 2 (6) 66 (18)
Average Sunlight Hours/ Day
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
6h 38' 6h 58' 7h 38' 7h 58' 8h 32' 8h 42' 7h 05' 7h 13' 7h 38' 7h 52' 6h 26' 6h 11' 7h 24'
Average Daylight Hours/ Day
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
9h 40' 10h 37' 11h 52' 13h 13' 14h 21' 14h 56' 14h 40' 13h 42' 12h 24' 11h 03' 9h 55' 9h 22' 12h 00'
Percentage of Sunny (Cloudy) Daylight Hours
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
70 (30) 67 (33) 65 (35) 61 (39) 60 (40) 59 (41) 49 (51) 53 (47) 62 (38) 72 (28) 66 (34) 67 (33) 62 (38)
Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (°).
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
30.1 39.4 50.2 61.9 70.2 73.5 70.5 62.2 50.8 39.3 30.1 26.7 50.4


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