Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunming weather
in September.
A warm, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Kunming: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 15.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 165 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes September a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Majie (8 km away). In September its highs average 22.0°C, about as warm as Kunming, with 165 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kunming ranks joint 748th 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; Kunming is 3.7°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 19.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 165 mm to 113 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
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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Majie in SeptemberChina · 8 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 15.5°C · 165 mm rain
- Anning in SeptemberChina · 27 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 16.0°C · 152 mm rain
- Haikou, China in SeptemberChina · 32 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 15.9°C · 147 mm rain
- Longquan in SeptemberChina · 69 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 17.0°C · 129 mm rain
- Yuxi in SeptemberChina · 78 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 16.6°C · 125 mm rain
- Miyang in SeptemberChina · 102 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 17.3°C · 95 mm rain
- Qujing in SeptemberChina · 118 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 14.4°C · 129 mm rain
- Chuxiong in SeptemberChina · 118 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 15.9°C · 126 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.