Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunming weather
in February.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a mild month in Kunming: daytime highs average 17.7°C and nights cool to about 7.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes February a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 18 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Majie (8 km away). In February its highs average 18.0°C, about as warm as Kunming, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kunming ranks joint 126th of 884 for the warmest February highs and joint 509th of 884 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 884 cities is 9.0°C; Kunming is 8.6°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 21.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 30 mm to 41 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Majie in FebruaryChina · 8 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 7.3°C · 30 mm rain
- Anning in FebruaryChina · 27 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 7.8°C · 21 mm rain
- Haikou, China in FebruaryChina · 32 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 8.2°C · 22 mm rain
- Longquan in FebruaryChina · 69 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 9.1°C · 16 mm rain
- Yuxi in FebruaryChina · 78 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 8.7°C · 22 mm rain
- Miyang in FebruaryChina · 102 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 8.9°C · 16 mm rain
- Qujing in FebruaryChina · 118 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 5.2°C · 33 mm rain
- Chuxiong in FebruaryChina · 118 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 7.3°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.