China · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Shantou.

November leads for comfortable weather in Shantou: typically 25°C by day, 16.9°C at night, with 87 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortNovember

Typical high25°C

Typical low16.9°C

Rain in November87 mm

Comfort

November

November · December · March

84climate match

Beach

October

October · November · December

92climate match

Outdoors

December

December · January · February

90climate match

The weakest month is June, scoring 5 against November’s 84 — 362 mm of rain falls.

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

6918.7° / 11.2°

Feb

6819.1° / 12.3°

Mar

7321.5° / 14.7°

Apr

5925.1° / 18.5°

May

3028.6° / 22.3°

Jun

530.8° / 25°

Jul

532.5° / 26.1°

Aug

532.3° / 25.9°

Sep

2731.2° / 24.6°

Oct

6928.5° / 21.4°

Nov

8425° / 16.9°

Dec

8420.8° / 13.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Shantou — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 20 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	18.7°C	11.2°C	64 mm	5.5	17.4°C	10 h 50	69	Good coverage
February	19.1°C	12.3°C	75 mm	8.9	17.1°C	11 h 20	68	Good coverage
March	21.5°C	14.7°C	121 mm	10	19.1°C	11 h 57	73	Good coverage
April	25.1°C	18.5°C	204 mm	11.2	21.7°C	12 h 40	59	Good coverage
May	28.6°C	22.3°C	261 mm	14.5	24.5°C	13 h 15	30	Good coverage
June	30.8°C	25°C	362 mm	18.1	26.6°C	13 h 34	5	Good coverage
July	32.5°C	26.1°C	317 mm	15.5	27.2°C	13 h 26	5	Good coverage
August	32.3°C	25.9°C	399 mm	17.2	27.5°C	12 h 56	5	Good coverage
September	31.2°C	24.6°C	217 mm	10.7	27.4°C	12 h 15	27	Good coverage
October	28.5°C	21.4°C	62 mm	3.8	25.5°C	11 h 34	69	Good coverage
November	25°C	16.9°C	87 mm	5.4	22.4°C	10 h 59	84	Good coverage
December	20.8°C	13.2°C	39 mm	4.5	19.4°C	10 h 42	84	Good coverage

Records at SHANTOU, 1951–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	29.0°C12 Jan 2000	0.4°C11 Jan 1955	103 mm28 Jan 2016	296 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1986	70
February	29.7°C25 Feb 2009	1.1°C12 Feb 1957	88 mm8 Feb 1985	369 mm1983 · driest 2 mm in 1981	70
March	32.4°C27 Mar 2024	3.0°C2 Mar 1986	92 mm21 Mar 1987	368 mm1983 · driest 2 mm in 1976	72
April	35.0°C24 Apr 2025	8.3°C4 Apr 1969	266 mm20 Apr 2008	526 mm1973 · driest 3 mm in 1975	72
May	37.9°C29 May 2021	14.2°C21 May 1960	396 mm17 May 2006	633 mm2006 · driest 1 mm in 1963	73
June	36.9°C5 Jun 2000	17.1°C3 Jun 1964	320 mm13 Jun 2008	771 mm2008 · driest 9 mm in 1961	74
July	38.8°C27 Jul 2008	20.8°C21 Jul 1985	192 mm31 Jul 1995	538 mm1995 · driest 8 mm in 1975	73
August	37.9°C1 Aug 1962	21.6°C21 Aug 1994	226 mm13 Aug 2005	607 mm1994 · driest 1 mm in 1962	73
September	37.5°C15 Sep 2021	16.4°C25 Sep 1966	148 mm22 Sep 1988	341 mm1993 · driest 6 mm in 1995	70
October	36.8°C1 Oct 2024	8.2°C29 Oct 1978	176 mm13 Oct 1964	319 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1992	68
November	33.1°C7 Nov 2023	4.6°C18 Nov 1979	94 mm18 Nov 2011	233 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2003	70
December	29.8°C12 Dec 2023	0.3°C29 Dec 1991	67 mm6 Dec 1997	120 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2003	69

Typical days per month at SHANTOU, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	1	0	1
February	3	0	2
March	6	<1	3
April	15	3	4
May	26	10	5
June	28	19	8
July	30	27	6
August	29	25	6
September	28	21	4
October	27	7	<1
November	14	<1	1
December	2	0	1

How often, not how much — every day in SHANTOU’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	27%	20%	5%	15%	16.3–19.8°C
February	26%	33%	9%	37%	15.9–21.0°C
March	41%	34%	11%	35%	18.4–22.8°C
April	57%	39%	18%	41%	22.7–26.3°C
May	51%	49%	23%	57%	26.4–29.3°C
June	41%	60%	29%	72%	28.5–31.7°C
July	53%	47%	24%	50%	30.8–33.1°C
August	50%	51%	26%	57%	30.8–33.4°C
September	61%	39%	19%	32%	29.4–31.8°C
October	84%	18%	7%	10%	26.4–29.4°C
November	79%	19%	6%	14%	22.5–26.0°C
December	53%	18%	5%	13%	19.0–21.9°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 56-year average. Warmest: 2002. Coolest: 1984.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1795940
NOAA station: CHM00059316 · SHANTOU
Station distance: 5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 23.35°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 20 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 SHANTOU is what differs

Jieyang→Chaozhou→Huanggang→Anbu→Chenghua→Haimen→

Or put two places side by side: Shantou vs Jieyang

Best time to visitShantou.