China · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kunming.

April leads for comfortable weather in Kunming: typically 24.4°C by day, 12.1°C at night, with 25 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high24.4°C

Typical low12.1°C

Rain in April25 mm

Comfort

April

April · May · March

92climate match

Beach

April

April · May · March

60climate match

Outdoors

March

March · November · February

92climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 53 against April’s 92 — 231 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

5516.3° / 4°

Feb

6518.6° / 5.7°

Mar

8121.7° / 8.8°

Apr

9224.4° / 12.1°

May

8325° / 14.9°

Jun

5925.2° / 17.2°

Jul

5324.8° / 17.6°

Aug

5724.9° / 17.1°

Sep

7423.5° / 15.5°

Oct

7221.1° / 13°

Nov

6818.5° / 8°

Dec

5516° / 4.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Kunming — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16.3°C	4°C	21 mm	2.9	10 h 44	55	Good coverage
February	18.6°C	5.7°C	14 mm	2.2	11 h 17	65	Good coverage
March	21.7°C	8.8°C	18 mm	3.4	11 h 56	81	Good coverage
April	24.4°C	12.1°C	25 mm	4	12 h 43	92	Good coverage
May	25°C	14.9°C	92 mm	9.6	13 h 21	83	Good coverage
June	25.2°C	17.2°C	198 mm	14.6	13 h 41	59	Good coverage
July	24.8°C	17.6°C	231 mm	16.9	13 h 33	53	Good coverage
August	24.9°C	17.1°C	210 mm	15.9	13 h 01	57	Good coverage
September	23.5°C	15.5°C	146 mm	11.6	12 h 16	74	Good coverage
October	21.1°C	13°C	94 mm	10.1	11 h 32	72	Good coverage
November	18.5°C	8°C	31 mm	4.1	10 h 53	68	Good coverage
December	16°C	4.7°C	12 mm	2.2	10 h 35	55	Good coverage

Records at KUNMING, 1951–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	24.7°C31 Jan 2023	-5.4°C1 Jan 1974	46 mm11 Jan 1999	112 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2001	73
February	26.4°C28 Feb 2013	-2.9°C1 Feb 1971	41 mm8 Feb 1977	48 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1999	72
March	28.5°C19 Mar 2022	-5.2°C2 Mar 1986	47 mm8 Mar 1973	77 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2007	72
April	30.5°C24 Apr 2021	0.5°C13 Apr 1970	35 mm27 Apr 1970	122 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2001	71
May	32.8°C25 May 2014	5.5°C5 May 1990	112 mm7 May 1999	220 mm1974 · driest 8 mm in 1982	71
June	32.6°C4 Jun 2014	8.9°C12 Jun 2013	165 mm7 Jun 1986	475 mm1998 · driest 36 mm in 1977	74
July	30.3°C16 Jul 2022	11.6°C28 Jul 1989	121 mm2 Jul 2008	368 mm1997 · driest 73 mm in 1992	75
August	30.3°C4 Aug 2005	8.8°C20 Aug 1965	110 mm1 Aug 1959	511 mm2023 · driest 57 mm in 2011	75
September	30.4°C21 Sep 2010	6.2°C27 Sep 1997	153 mm16 Sep 1957	306 mm1957 · driest 28 mm in 2009	73
October	27.8°C5 Oct 2023	2.0°C31 Oct 1958	85 mm20 Oct 1961	293 mm1965 · driest 9 mm in 2009	72
November	25.3°C11 Nov 2002	-2.9°C15 Nov 1971	60 mm7 Nov 1981	182 mm1955 · driest 0 mm in 1980	71
December	25.1°C1 Dec 1998	-7.8°C29 Dec 1983	36 mm1 Dec 1957	69 mm1970 · driest 0 mm in 2000	71

Typical days per month at KUNMING, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	<1	<1
February	<1	0	<1	<1
March	4	0	0	<1
April	16	<1	0	<1
May	17	1	0	3
June	17	<1	0	5
July	16	<1	0	7
August	17	<1	0	6
September	10	0	0	4
October	3	0	0	2
November	<1	0	<1	1
December	0	0	1	<1

How often, not how much — every day in KUNMING’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	6%	9%	2%	5%	13.6–17.4°C
February	29%	9%	1%	5%	15.4–20.3°C
March	72%	11%	2%	9%	19.6–23.0°C
April	83%	14%	3%	11%	22.0–26.0°C
May	70%	30%	10%	39%	23.2–27.3°C
June	53%	47%	20%	67%	23.1–26.4°C
July	49%	52%	22%	75%	23.3–25.9°C
August	51%	50%	21%	68%	23.4–26.1°C
September	60%	37%	13%	46%	21.8–24.7°C
October	52%	33%	9%	37%	18.9–22.0°C
November	29%	16%	4%	13%	16.1–19.7°C
December	5%	8%	1%	5%	14.0–17.4°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 62-year average. Warmest: 2009. Coolest: 1971.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1804651
NOAA station: CHM00056778 · KUNMING
Station distance: 4.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 25.04°, 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 KUNMING is what differs

Majie→Haikou→Anning→Zhongyi→Yongding→Yangzongnan Hengjie→

Or put two places side by side: Kunming vs Majie

Best time to visitKunming.

April

April

March

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kunming.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.