China · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ürümqi.

September leads for comfortable weather in Ürümqi: typically 23.1°C by day, 12.2°C at night, with 19 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember
Typical high23.1°C
Typical low12.2°C
Rain in September19 mm
Comfort

September

September · May · June

92climate match
Beach

July

July · August · June

89climate match
Outdoors

September

September · April · May

87climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 92days reach only -7.3°C, 31° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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
5-7.3° / -16°
Feb
5-4.2° / -12.5°
Mar
54.8° / -3.3°
Apr
5817.2° / 6.4°
May
8823.5° / 12°
Jun
8028.3° / 17.2°
Jul
7029.8° / 19.2°
Aug
7629° / 17.8°
Sep
9223.1° / 12.2°
Oct
4814.3° / 4.4°
Nov
53.4° / -4.2°
Dec
5-4.9° / -12.8°
Monthly climate evidence for Ürümqi — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
MonthDayNightRainWet daysDaylightComfortCoverage
January-7.3°C-16°C13 mm3.79 h 155Good coverage
February-4.2°C-12.5°C14 mm3.710 h 245Good coverage
March4.8°C-3.3°C24 mm4.211 h 475Good coverage
April17.2°C6.4°C48 mm5.913 h 2258Strong coverage
May23.5°C12°C49 mm5.714 h 4288Good coverage
June28.3°C17.2°C33 mm4.815 h 2680Good coverage
July29.8°C19.2°C41 mm5.515 h 0970Good coverage
August29°C17.8°C38 mm4.813 h 5976Good coverage
September23.1°C12.2°C19 mm2.812 h 2792Good coverage
October14.3°C4.4°C25 mm3.810 h 5648Good coverage
November3.4°C-4.2°C50 mm5.59 h 355Strong coverage
December-4.9°C-12.8°C70 mm5.98 h 565Strong coverage

What has changed

Ürümqi runs +1.1°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
+2.3
Feb
+2.3
Mar
+2.7
Apr
+2.0
May
+0.6
Jun
+0.4
Jul
-0.1
Aug
-0.5
Sep
0.0
Oct
+0.9
Nov
+1.7
Dec
+1.3
September daytime highs, 20112025. Last recorded: 21.6°C.
Records at WU LU MU QI, 1951–2026
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January9.9°C8 Jan 2002-34.1°C7 Jan 195630 mm3 Jan 201646 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 197576
February13.5°C18 Feb 1979-41.5°C27 Feb 195130 mm22 Feb 202056 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 198276
March23.7°C31 Mar 1989-33.4°C1 Mar 1951110 mm26 Mar 2017270 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 198376
April32.5°C28 Apr 1972-14.9°C11 Apr 197960 mm4 Apr 2015132 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 199776
May37.0°C29 May 1974-2.4°C14 May 198543 mm26 May 2009126 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 198976
June40.9°C18 Jun 19664.6°C3 Jun 198558 mm11 Jun 1978107 mm2015 · driest 2 mm in 197176
July41.0°C13 Jul 19758.8°C29 Jul 200357 mm17 Jul 2007108 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 198076
August42.1°C1 Aug 19735.0°C31 Aug 199648 mm14 Aug 199987 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 195175
September37.0°C2 Sep 1966-5.0°C26 Sep 195840 mm26 Sep 197966 mm1979 · driest 1 mm in 199775
October30.5°C2 Oct 1985-12.4°C20 Oct 195232 mm2 Oct 201684 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 195475
November21.4°C1 Nov 2023-36.6°C30 Nov 195280 mm22 Nov 2016246 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 195675
December15.6°C3 Dec 1989-38.3°C1 Dec 195280 mm12 Dec 2016451 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 196775
Typical days per month at WU LU MU QI, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Days 30°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)
January0030<1
February0027<1
March0022<1
April3<141
May133<11
June25100<1
July281601
August26130<1
September113<1<1
October<105<1
November0022<1
December0030<1
How often, not how much — every day in WU LU MU QI’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January0%9%<1%2%-10.9–-4.8°C
February0%12%<1%5%-9.8–-1.3°C
March1%15%2%8%-0.2–8.0°C
April29%19%4%10%13.5–19.6°C
May71%16%4%8%20.9–26.8°C
June83%17%3%10%26.0–30.6°C
July85%16%3%8%28.8–32.4°C
August87%13%2%5%27.5–31.3°C
September71%12%3%4%21.8–25.2°C
October14%13%3%5%11.4–15.8°C
November0%17%2%7%-1.4–5.9°C
December0%14%1%6%-9.9–-1.8°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.

1951Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 69-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1952.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 1529102
NOAA station
CHM00051463 · WU LU MU QI
Station distance
4 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
23 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 43.80°, 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.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from WU LU MU QI is what differs

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