Climate averages 1991–2020
Beijing weather
in July.
A hot, wet month: one of the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Beijing: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 160 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes July a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 42 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Daxing (20 km away). In July its highs average 31.8°C, about as warm as Beijing, with 149 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Beijing ranks joint 168th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 282nd of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Beijing is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 160 mm to 119 mm.
The annual picture
July in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Beijing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.1°C-8.0°C | -8.0°C | 2.8 | 0.8 | 9.710 h |
| February | 6.1°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 5.1 | 1.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 13.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 8.9 | 2.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.5°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 19 | 3.9 | 13.213 h |
| May | 28.1°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 35 | 5.0 | 14.414 h |
| June | 31.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 74 | 7.8 | 14.915 h |
| July, selected | 31.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 160 | 12.8 | 14.715 h |
| August | 30.2°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 119 | 10.5 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 56 | 7.1 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 33 | 4.3 | 11.211 h |
| November | 10.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 14 | 2.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 3.1°C-6.2°C | -6.2°C | 3.4 | 1.0 | 9.49 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
July in nearby cities
- Daxing in JulyChina · 20 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 22.4°C · 149 mm rain
- Tongzhou in JulyChina · 23 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 22.4°C · 175 mm rain
- Mentougou in JulyChina · 26 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 21.9°C · 195 mm rain
- Liangxiang in JulyChina · 30 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 22.0°C · 149 mm rain
- Shunyi in JulyChina · 32 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 22.0°C · 175 mm rain
- Changping in JulyChina · 37 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 21.6°C · 165 mm rain
- Fangshan in JulyChina · 42 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 22.1°C · 168 mm rain
- Langfang in JulyChina · 51 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 184 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Beijing) is explained once on the Beijing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.