Climate averages 1991–2020
Fuzhou weather
in September.
A hot, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a hot month in Fuzhou: daytime highs average 28.7°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 165 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes September a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 20 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ningde (70 km away). In September its highs average 29.3°C, 0.5°C warmer than Fuzhou, with 172 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Fuzhou ranks joint 156th of 884 for the warmest September highs and joint 773rd of 884 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 884 cities is 25.7°C; Fuzhou is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 165 mm to 59 mm.
The annual picture
September 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
Fuzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.3°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 57 | 7.3 | 10.711 h |
| February | 15.3°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 73 | 10.0 | 11.311 h |
| March | 18.3°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 133 | 14.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 136 | 15.0 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.3°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 226 | 17.0 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.4°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 249 | 18.1 | 13.714 h |
| July | 32.4°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 169 | 15.6 | 13.614 h |
| August | 31.5°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 240 | 21.0 | 13.113 h |
| September, selected | 28.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 165 | 14.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 59 | 7.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 20.9°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 62 | 8.0 | 10.911 h |
| December | 16.2°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 52 | 7.1 | 10.511 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
September in nearby cities
- Ningde in SeptemberChina · 70 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 172 mm rain
- Putian in SeptemberChina · 75 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 23.5°C · 152 mm rain
- Songcheng in SeptemberChina · 115 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.4°C · 151 mm rain
- Fu’an in SeptemberChina · 119 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.6°C · 140 mm rain
- Nanping in SeptemberChina · 130 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.0°C · 96 mm rain
- Quanzhou in SeptemberChina · 147 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.7°C · 123 mm rain
- Ximeicun in SeptemberChina · 151 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 123 mm rain
- Jinjiang in SeptemberChina · 156 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.1°C · 114 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 Fuzhou) is explained once on the Fuzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.