Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunming weather
in October.
A mild, wet month: the 8th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a mild month in Kunming: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 12.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes October a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 35 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Majie (8 km away). In October its highs average 19.6°C, about as warm as Kunming, with 113 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kunming ranks joint 595th of 884 for the warmest October highs and joint 811th of 884 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 884 cities is 20.4°C; Kunming is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 16.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 113 mm to 34 mm.
The annual picture
October 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Majie in OctoberChina · 8 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 13.0°C · 113 mm rain
- Anning in OctoberChina · 27 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 13.5°C · 91 mm rain
- Haikou, China in OctoberChina · 32 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 13.4°C · 87 mm rain
- Longquan in OctoberChina · 69 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.6°C · 74 mm rain
- Yuxi in OctoberChina · 78 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 14.3°C · 79 mm rain
- Miyang in OctoberChina · 102 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 14.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Qujing in OctoberChina · 118 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 11.6°C · 91 mm rain
- Chuxiong in OctoberChina · 118 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 13.5°C · 82 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.