China · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Beijing.

May leads for comfortable weather in Beijing: typically 27°C by day, 14.9°C at night, with 38 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high27°C

Typical low14.9°C

Rain in May38 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · April

89climate match

Beach

June

June · May · August

76climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

96climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 89 — days reach only 2.2°C, 22° 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

52.2° / -7.1°

Feb

76.3° / -4.1°

Mar

3912.7° / 1.7°

Apr

7920.8° / 9°

May

8927° / 14.9°

Jun

5630.8° / 19.9°

Jul

2931.7° / 22.8°

Aug

4830.5° / 21.8°

Sep

8426.4° / 16.1°

Oct

7319.4° / 8.8°

Nov

2910.4° / 0.6°

Dec

53.6° / -5°

Monthly climate evidence for Beijing — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	2.2°C	-7.1°C	3 mm	0.6	9 h 38	5	Good coverage
February	6.3°C	-4.1°C	6 mm	1.1	10 h 37	7	Good coverage
March	12.7°C	1.7°C	10 mm	2	11 h 49	39	Good coverage
April	20.8°C	9°C	22 mm	3	13 h 12	79	Good coverage
May	27°C	14.9°C	38 mm	4.3	14 h 21	89	Good coverage
June	30.8°C	19.9°C	91 mm	8.4	14 h 59	56	Good coverage
July	31.7°C	22.8°C	208 mm	10.9	14 h 44	29	Good coverage
August	30.5°C	21.8°C	129 mm	8.5	13 h 44	48	Good coverage
September	26.4°C	16.1°C	61 mm	6.2	12 h 24	84	Good coverage
October	19.4°C	8.8°C	33 mm	3.6	11 h 04	73	Good coverage
November	10.4°C	0.6°C	17 mm	2.3	9 h 55	29	Good coverage
December	3.6°C	-5°C	3 mm	0.9	9 h 21	5	Good coverage

Records at BEIJING, 1951–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.3°C4 Jan 2002	-22.8°C13 Jan 1951	15 mm23 Jan 1973	21 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1971	70
February	25.6°C21 Feb 2021	-27.4°C22 Feb 1966	29 mm25 Feb 1959	38 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2012	68
March	29.5°C18 Mar 2009	-15.0°C3 Mar 1971	27 mm4 Mar 2007	43 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1994	69
April	33.0°C27 Apr 1988	-3.2°C1 Apr 1972	51 mm5 Apr 1964	142 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 1975	68
May	38.3°C14 May 1968	2.5°C2 May 1965	102 mm29 May 1951	146 mm1951 · driest 2 mm in 1996	68
June	41.1°C22 Jun 2023	9.8°C4 Jun 1997	139 mm27 Jun 1986	252 mm1956 · driest 4 mm in 1990	73
July	41.9°C24 Jul 1999	15.3°C1 Jul 1966	263 mm20 Jul 2016	511 mm1959 · driest 27 mm in 1983	75
August	38.3°C8 Aug 1951	11.4°C31 Aug 1972	212 mm9 Aug 1963	575 mm1959 · driest 34 mm in 1962	71
September	35.0°C1 Sep 2002	3.7°C28 Sep 1968	85 mm1 Sep 2014	149 mm1959 · driest 1 mm in 1966	71
October	31.0°C4 Oct 2006	-3.5°C30 Oct 1986	52 mm9 Oct 2017	133 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1957	69
November	23.3°C8 Nov 1954	-12.3°C30 Nov 1970	49 mm4 Nov 2012	81 mm2012 · driest 0 mm in 2002	68
December	19.5°C3 Dec 1989	-18.3°C27 Dec 1966	13 mm15 Dec 1977	16 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1982	70

Typical days per month at BEIJING, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	28	0
February	0	0	25	<1
March	<1	0	11	<1
April	6	<1	<1	<1
May	22	7	0	1
June	27	18	0	2
July	30	22	0	5
August	30	19	0	3
September	20	4	0	2
October	2	<1	<1	1
November	0	0	13	<1
December	0	0	26	0

How often, not how much — every day in BEIJING’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%	2%	0%	1%	-0.2–4.4°C
February	<1%	6%	<1%	1%	2.0–8.3°C
March	6%	7%	<1%	2%	8.9–14.6°C
April	52%	10%	3%	5%	18.6–22.4°C
May	83%	15%	4%	8%	25.2–28.7°C
June	79%	22%	7%	21%	28.5–32.6°C
July	66%	35%	17%	45%	29.7–33.2°C
August	70%	31%	14%	33%	28.7–31.7°C
September	82%	17%	7%	11%	24.7–27.7°C
October	43%	11%	3%	3%	17.5–21.2°C
November	2%	6%	<1%	1%	7.7–12.4°C
December	0%	3%	0%	<1%	1.0–5.6°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.

1951Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 62-year average. Warmest: 2007. Coolest: 1969.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1816670
NOAA station: CHM00054511 · BEIJING
Station distance: 10.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.91°, 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 BEIJING is what differs

Mentougou→Tongzhou→Shunyi→Daxing→Fangshan→Changping→

Or put two places side by side: Beijing vs Mentougou

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Beijing.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.