May
May · June · September
88climate match
China · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Jiuquan.
May leads for comfortable weather in Jiuquan: typically 23.7°C by day, 8.9°C at night, with 7 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortMay
Typical high23.7°C
Typical low8.9°C
Rain in May7 mm
July
July · June · August
81climate match
September
September · May · April
88climate match
The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 88 — days reach only -1.5°C, 25° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -15.1°C.
Month by month
The whole year,
without the guesswork.
The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.
Jan
5-1.5° / -15.1°
Feb
53.5° / -10.5°
Mar
2110.1° / -3.5°
Apr
6118.3° / 3.6°
May
8823.7° / 8.9°
Jun
8428° / 13.7°
Jul
7929.6° / 15.5°
Aug
8328.3° / 13.7°
Sep
8422.9° / 8.3°
Oct
4915.8° / 1.5°
Nov
87.3° / -5.5°
Dec
5-0.3° / -12.9°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.5°C | -15.1°C | 23 mm | 1.3 | 9 h 38 | 5 | Good coverage |
| February | 3.5°C | -10.5°C | 13 mm | 1.3 | 10 h 38 | 5 | Good coverage |
| March | 10.1°C | -3.5°C | 6 mm | 1.7 | 11 h 49 | 21 | Good coverage |
| April | 18.3°C | 3.6°C | 3 mm | 1 | 13 h 12 | 61 | Good coverage |
| May | 23.7°C | 8.9°C | 7 mm | 2.2 | 14 h 21 | 88 | Good coverage |
| June | 28°C | 13.7°C | 11 mm | 2.5 | 14 h 58 | 84 | Good coverage |
| July | 29.6°C | 15.5°C | 22 mm | 4.3 | 14 h 43 | 79 | Good coverage |
| August | 28.3°C | 13.7°C | 17 mm | 3.9 | 13 h 44 | 83 | Good coverage |
| September | 22.9°C | 8.3°C | 12 mm | 2 | 12 h 24 | 84 | Good coverage |
| October | 15.8°C | 1.5°C | 3 mm | 0.8 | 11 h 05 | 49 | Good coverage |
| November | 7.3°C | -5.5°C | 3 mm | 0.8 | 9 h 56 | 8 | Good coverage |
| December | -0.3°C | -12.9°C | 2 mm | 0.9 | 9 h 22 | 5 | Good coverage |
What has changed
Jiuquan runs +2.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.
Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.
Jan
+2.0
Feb
+2.6
Mar
+2.8
Apr
+2.2
May
+2.0
Jun
+2.4
Jul
+2.8
Aug
+1.7
Sep
+2.4
Oct
+1.6
Nov
+1.6
Dec
+0.7
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.8°C30 Jan 2014 | -28.6°C14 Jan 1958 | 70 mm23 Jan 2016 | 284 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1971 | 75 |
| February | 16.5°C21 Feb 2021 | -31.6°C18 Feb 1952 | 90 mm2 Feb 2019 | 701 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1962 | 75 |
| March | 25.2°C28 Mar 2003 | -25.7°C9 Mar 2010 | 30 mm11 Mar 2016 | 38 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2024 | 75 |
| April | 31.7°C27 Apr 2004 | -10.6°C11 Apr 1979 | 15 mm20 Apr 1972 | 21 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1966 | 75 |
| May | 34.7°C21 May 2024 | -3.4°C2 May 1981 | 37 mm23 May 1964 | 64 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 1968 | 75 |
| June | 36.1°C10 Jun 1961 | 2.4°C1 Jun 1980 | 84 mm20 Jun 2019 | 105 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2023 | 75 |
| July | 38.4°C7 Jul 1953 | 7.7°C13 Jul 1971 | 33 mm6 Jul 2006 | 93 mm1979 · driest 1 mm in 1970 | 75 |
| August | 37.5°C8 Aug 1953 | 4.4°C29 Aug 1984 | 44 mm4 Aug 1983 | 68 mm1966 · driest 1 mm in 2009 | 75 |
| September | 33.0°C8 Sep 1998 | -3.7°C30 Sep 2004 | 39 mm30 Sep 1964 | 46 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1976 | 74 |
| October | 29.0°C7 Oct 1951 | -16.9°C28 Oct 1986 | 14 mm24 Oct 2010 | 18 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1979 | 74 |
| November | 20.1°C1 Nov 2023 | -24.2°C30 Nov 1967 | 5 mm7 Nov 2003 | 12 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 1958 | 74 |
| December | 17.3°C14 Dec 1978 | -29.8°C27 Dec 1991 | 20 mm27 Dec 2015 | 35 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1976 | 74 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| March | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| April | 2 | <1 | 6 | 0 |
| May | 13 | 1 | <1 | <1 |
| June | 25 | 8 | 0 | <1 |
| July | 28 | 16 | 0 | <1 |
| August | 26 | 11 | 0 | <1 |
| September | 10 | 1 | <1 | <1 |
| October | <1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 86); on 2011–2025 it is May (87). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0% | 3% | <1% | <1% | -4.3–1.3°C |
| February | 0% | 4% | <1% | <1% | -1.2–5.7°C |
| March | 2% | 4% | <1% | 1% | 7.5–12.5°C |
| April | 34% | 4% | <1% | <1% | 15.6–20.0°C |
| May | 78% | 6% | <1% | 3% | 21.7–25.5°C |
| June | 90% | 11% | <1% | 3% | 26.2–29.4°C |
| July | 86% | 15% | 2% | 7% | 27.7–31.4°C |
| August | 89% | 13% | 1% | 7% | 26.9–29.7°C |
| September | 77% | 8% | <1% | 4% | 21.4–24.6°C |
| October | 17% | 3% | 0% | <1% | 13.8–17.5°C |
| November | <1% | 2% | 0% | <1% | 3.9–9.2°C |
| December | 0% | 3% | 0% | <1% | -3.4–2.5°C |
A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.
The evidence behind this page
Nearby, measured,
and named.
- Place identity
- GeoNames 1279945
- NOAA station
- CHM00052533 · JIUQUAN
- Station distance
- 4 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 23 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 39.74°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
- Important limit
- Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.