China · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Lijiang.

May leads for comfortable weather in Lijiang: typically 23°C by day, 11.9°C at night, with 86 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23°C

Typical low11.9°C

Rain in May86 mm

Comfort

May

May · April · June

78climate match

Beach

April

April · May · June

40climate match

Outdoors

April

April · March · October

94climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 41 against May’s 78 — days reach only 14.1°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0.3°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

4114.1° / 0.3°

Feb

5015.6° / 2.9°

Mar

6317.8° / 5.7°

Apr

7720.9° / 8.8°

May

7823° / 11.9°

Jun

7024.3° / 14.8°

Jul

5123.4° / 14.9°

Aug

5222.9° / 14.2°

Sep

5821.7° / 12.7°

Oct

6720.4° / 8.8°

Nov

5717.3° / 3.6°

Dec

4314.9° / 0.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Lijiang — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.1°C	0.3°C	6 mm	1.4	10 h 37	41	Good coverage
February	15.6°C	2.9°C	5 mm	1.6	11 h 12	50	Good coverage
March	17.8°C	5.7°C	16 mm	3.4	11 h 56	63	Strong coverage
April	20.9°C	8.8°C	20 mm	4.2	12 h 46	77	Strong coverage
May	23°C	11.9°C	86 mm	10.1	13 h 27	78	Good coverage
June	24.3°C	14.8°C	162 mm	15.2	13 h 49	70	Good coverage
July	23.4°C	14.9°C	259 mm	20	13 h 41	51	Good coverage
August	22.9°C	14.2°C	236 mm	19.5	13 h 05	52	Good coverage
September	21.7°C	12.7°C	166 mm	16.9	12 h 17	58	Good coverage
October	20.4°C	8.8°C	67 mm	8.8	11 h 29	67	Good coverage
November	17.3°C	3.6°C	12 mm	2.1	10 h 47	57	Good coverage
December	14.9°C	0.2°C	2 mm	0.5	10 h 27	43	Good coverage

What has changed

Lijiang runs +1.6°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

+1.2

Feb

+1.9

Mar

+2.1

Apr

+2.0

May

+0.9

Jun

+1.7

Jul

+1.6

Aug

+1.4

Sep

+1.7

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+1.6

Dec

+1.4

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.0°C.

Records at LIJING, 1951–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.3°C31 Jan 2023	-7.1°C7 Jan 1951	23 mm30 Jan 2003	25 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 1958	76
February	24.3°C28 Feb 2013	-6.2°C4 Feb 1953	21 mm25 Feb 1959	34 mm1959 · driest 0 mm in 1999	76
March	27.8°C19 Mar 2022	-4.2°C3 Mar 1965	22 mm24 Mar 1996	63 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 2020	76
April	28.9°C22 Apr 1999	-1.3°C10 Apr 1978	38 mm12 Apr 1975	84 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 2023	76
May	32.3°C31 May 2023	3.0°C3 May 1955	81 mm31 May 1989	175 mm2007 · driest 1 mm in 2019	76
June	32.3°C1 Jun 2023	6.2°C3 Jun 1984	116 mm21 Jun 2021	380 mm2021 · driest 40 mm in 2015	76
July	31.4°C6 Jul 1983	6.9°C9 Jul 1976	106 mm27 Jul 1989	458 mm2002 · driest 98 mm in 1980	76
August	29.8°C8 Aug 2021	6.6°C16 Aug 1987	84 mm28 Aug 2004	484 mm1993 · driest 105 mm in 2011	75
September	28.7°C3 Sep 2006	3.4°C21 Sep 2007	73 mm22 Sep 2015	315 mm1987 · driest 51 mm in 1958	75
October	26.2°C6 Oct 2025	-0.7°C28 Oct 1957	53 mm6 Oct 1971	220 mm1979 · driest 2 mm in 1981	75
November	23.6°C16 Nov 1998	-4.5°C27 Nov 1975	40 mm7 Nov 2016	76 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1968	75
December	22.8°C1 Dec 1998	-10.3°C30 Dec 1983	24 mm28 Dec 1983	35 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1959	75

Typical days per month at LIJING, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	14	<1
February	0	6	0
March	<1	<1	<1
April	2	0	<1
May	9	0	2
June	13	0	5
July	9	0	9
August	6	0	8
September	4	0	6
October	<1	0	2
November	0	4	<1
December	0	16	0

How often, not how much — every day in LIJING’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	2%	3%	<1%	1%	12.7–15.4°C
February	5%	7%	<1%	3%	13.0–17.4°C
March	24%	10%	<1%	7%	15.7–20.0°C
April	57%	13%	1%	10%	18.9–22.2°C
May	69%	26%	7%	35%	21.4–25.0°C
June	46%	54%	20%	77%	22.3–25.7°C
July	36%	65%	28%	92%	22.3–24.6°C
August	39%	61%	24%	84%	21.8–24.3°C
September	44%	54%	19%	73%	20.3–23.1°C
October	53%	27%	7%	26%	18.6–21.4°C
November	13%	7%	1%	3%	15.6–18.7°C
December	1%	2%	<1%	<1%	13.3–15.9°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 69-year average. Warmest: 2006. Coolest: 1976.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1813253
NOAA station: CHM00056651 · LIJING
Station distance: 24.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 26.87°, 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 LIJING is what differs

Yongbei→Shunzhou→Zhanhe→Jiuhe→Huangshan→Yunhe→

Or put two places side by side: Lijiang vs Yongbei

Best time to visitLijiang.

May

April

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Lijiang runs +1.6°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Lijiang.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Lijiang runs +1.6°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.