Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunming weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Kunming: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 5.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 37 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Majie (8 km away). In December its highs average 14.5°C, about as warm as Kunming, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kunming ranks joint 159th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 482nd of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Kunming is 6.6°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 14.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 24 mm to 35 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Kunming climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.7°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 35 | 5.4 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 30 | 5.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.5°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 41 | 6.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 69 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| May | 24.6°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 139 | 15.0 | 13.313 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 278 | 23.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 23.5°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 274 | 26.6 | 13.514 h |
| August | 23.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 238 | 24.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 22.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 165 | 20.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.5°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 113 | 16.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 16.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 34 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| December, selected | 14.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 24 | 4.5 | 10.611 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
December in nearby cities
- Majie in DecemberChina · 8 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 6.0°C · 24 mm rain
- Anning in DecemberChina · 27 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.6°C · 16 mm rain
- Haikou, China in DecemberChina · 32 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 6.7°C · 16 mm rain
- Longquan in DecemberChina · 69 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 7.4°C · 12 mm rain
- Yuxi in DecemberChina · 78 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 7.5°C · 20 mm rain
- Miyang in DecemberChina · 102 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 7.4°C · 16 mm rain
- Qujing in DecemberChina · 118 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 3.9°C · 28 mm rain
- Chuxiong in DecemberChina · 118 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 6.3°C · 16 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 Kunming) is explained once on the Kunming year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Majie lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.