Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanjing weather
in June.
A hot, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a hot month in Nanjing: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 20.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 222 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes June a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 13 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhenzhou (44 km away). In June its highs average 28.6°C, about as warm as Nanjing, with 209 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanjing ranks joint 496th of 884 for the warmest June highs and joint 592nd of 884 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 884 cities is 28.4°C; Nanjing is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From June to July, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 31.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 222 mm to 210 mm.
The annual picture
June 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
Nanjing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.6°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 55 | 8.0 | 10.310 h |
| February | 10.3°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 56 | 8.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 15.0°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 80 | 10.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.0°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 94 | 9.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.7°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 121 | 9.8 | 13.814 h |
| June, selected | 28.6°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 222 | 11.9 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 210 | 15.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.9°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 174 | 14.3 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.1°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 81 | 8.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.3°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 54 | 6.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.3°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 53 | 6.8 | 10.611 h |
| December | 9.9°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 34 | 5.6 | 10.110 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
June in nearby cities
- Zhenzhou in JuneChina · 44 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 20.6°C · 209 mm rain
- Ma’anshan in JuneChina · 49 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 21.0°C · 238 mm rain
- Chuzhou in JuneChina · 54 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 20.5°C · 194 mm rain
- Zhenjiang in JuneChina · 66 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 20.4°C · 210 mm rain
- Yangzhou in JuneChina · 72 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 20.4°C · 192 mm rain
- Xiannü in JuneChina · 84 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 20.2°C · 192 mm rain
- Wuhu in JuneChina · 85 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 21.3°C · 274 mm rain
- Licheng, China in JuneChina · 97 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.2°C · 258 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 Nanjing) is explained once on the Nanjing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.