China · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Golmud.

August leads for comfortable weather in Golmud: typically 24.8°C by day, 11.9°C at night, with 7 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high24.8°C

Typical low11.9°C

Rain in August7 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

92climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

66climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · June

94climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 92 — days reach only -0.5°C, 24° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -13.8°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

5-0.5° / -13.8°

Feb

54.4° / -10°

Mar

179.5° / -4.7°

Apr

4615.4° / 1.1°

May

6919.8° / 5.7°

Jun

8923.2° / 10.3°

Jul

9025.7° / 12.5°

Aug

9224.8° / 11.9°

Sep

7520.5° / 7.4°

Oct

3813.5° / -0.4°

Nov

56.3° / -7.5°

Dec

50.3° / -12.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Golmud — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-0.5°C	-13.8°C	1 mm	0.3	9 h 56	5	Good coverage
February	4.4°C	-10°C	1 mm	0.1	10 h 48	5	Good coverage
March	9.5°C	-4.7°C	1 mm	0.3	11 h 51	17	Good coverage
April	15.4°C	1.1°C	2 mm	0.5	13 h 04	46	Good coverage
May	19.8°C	5.7°C	5 mm	1.4	14 h 05	69	Good coverage
June	23.2°C	10.3°C	8 mm	2.1	14 h 38	89	Good coverage
July	25.7°C	12.5°C	13 mm	3.4	14 h 25	90	Good coverage
August	24.8°C	11.9°C	7 mm	2.3	13 h 33	92	Good coverage
September	20.5°C	7.4°C	5 mm	1.5	12 h 22	75	Good coverage
October	13.5°C	-0.4°C	1 mm	0.4	11 h 12	38	Good coverage
November	6.3°C	-7.5°C	1 mm	0.2	10 h 11	5	Good coverage
December	0.3°C	-12.8°C	1 mm	0.3	9 h 41	5	Good coverage

What has changed

Golmud runs +1.9°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

+1.8

Feb

+2.6

Mar

+2.2

Apr

+1.1

May

+1.4

Jun

+1.2

Jul

+2.4

Aug

+2.0

Sep

+2.9

Oct

+2.1

Nov

+2.3

Dec

+1.0

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.6°C.

Records at GOLMUD, 1955–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	13.9°C31 Jan 2006	-33.6°C12 Jan 1959	4 mm16 Jan 2015	5 mm1956 · driest 0 mm in 1985	71
February	18.0°C19 Feb 2003	-26.6°C14 Feb 1967	2 mm9 Feb 2011	4 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1963	71
March	24.3°C29 Mar 2003	-26.1°C1 Mar 1959	6 mm9 Mar 1987	19 mm1955 · driest 0 mm in 2019	71
April	31.3°C26 Apr 1998	-13.4°C6 Apr 1969	7 mm25 Apr 1970	12 mm1970 · driest 0 mm in 1972	71
May	31.0°C21 May 1991	-7.8°C2 May 1955	11 mm27 May 2009	23 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 2025	71
June	32.7°C10 Jun 1961	-5.2°C10 Jun 1969	27 mm7 Jun 2010	31 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1957	71
July	36.1°C6 Jul 2022	1.9°C26 Jul 1969	32 mm22 Jul 1971	44 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 1956	71
August	35.5°C2 Aug 1999	-1.4°C30 Aug 1962	18 mm1 Aug 2017	38 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2002	71
September	31.0°C19 Sep 2010	-8.2°C22 Sep 1968	14 mm6 Sep 1970	25 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2012	70
October	25.1°C6 Oct 1959	-20.2°C28 Oct 1957	12 mm3 Oct 1973	14 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 2022	70
November	20.2°C16 Nov 2020	-25.4°C29 Nov 1967	3 mm30 Nov 2015	6 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1964	70
December	11.0°C14 Dec 2012	-28.5°C18 Dec 1965	3 mm24 Dec 2010	5 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1963	70

Typical days per month at GOLMUD, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	30	0
February	0	0	28	0
March	0	0	28	0
April	<1	0	12	0
May	2	0	1	<1
June	9	<1	0	0
July	19	3	0	<1
August	15	2	0	0
September	2	<1	<1	0
October	0	0	18	0
November	0	0	29	0
December	0	0	30	0

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was August (scoring 91); on 2011–2025 it is June (90). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in GOLMUD’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	<1%	0%	0%	-3.4–1.3°C
February	0%	<1%	0%	0%	0.9–6.2°C
March	1%	2%	0%	<1%	7.3–10.9°C
April	14%	2%	0%	<1%	12.5–16.7°C
May	45%	5%	<1%	<1%	17.8–21.2°C
June	79%	9%	<1%	3%	21.5–24.3°C
July	87%	10%	<1%	3%	23.8–27.4°C
August	89%	8%	<1%	2%	23.4–26.4°C
September	47%	4%	<1%	1%	18.0–21.7°C
October	3%	1%	<1%	0%	11.7–14.9°C
November	<1%	1%	0%	0%	3.8–7.9°C
December	0%	<1%	0%	0%	-1.7–1.6°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.

1955Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 64-year average. Warmest: 2006. Coolest: 1955.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1281184
NOAA station: CHM00052818 · GOLMUD
Station distance: 1.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.41°, 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.

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