Climate averages 1991–2020
Qamdo weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
Approximate: the model cell is 619 m higher than the city, so the temperatures are adjusted up by 4.0°C. For places not marked Approximate, the cell is within 400 m of the place's elevation.
April is a cool month in Qamdo: daytime highs average 11.3°C and nights cool to about -1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 55 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gengqing (153 km away). In April its highs average -2.3°C, 13.6°C cooler than Qamdo, with 52 mm of precipitation.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qamdo ranks joint 866th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 271st of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Qamdo is 9.3°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 5.7°C to 17.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 64 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Qamdo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.1°C-11.8°C | -11.8°C | 5.2 | 1.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 4.5°C-8.6°C | -8.6°C | 11 | 3.1 | 11.111 h |
| March | 6.7°C-6.3°C | -6.3°C | 23 | 6.8 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 11.3°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 39 | 10.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 17.0°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 64 | 13.5 | 13.714 h |
| June | 20.8°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 105 | 19.7 | 14.114 h |
| July | 21.2°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 143 | 23.0 | 14.014 h |
| August | 20.9°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 134 | 21.4 | 13.313 h |
| September | 19.4°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 93 | 17.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 13.7°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 46 | 10.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 5.8°C-7.1°C | -7.1°C | 13 | 3.7 | 10.611 h |
| December | 2.1°C-11.5°C | -11.5°C | 4.9 | 1.7 | 10.210 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
April in nearby cities
- Gengqing in AprilChina · 153 kmHigh -2.3°C · Low -12.7°C · 52 mm precipitation
- Yushu (Qinghai), China (approximate) in AprilChina · 209 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -8.3°C · 29 mm rain
- Tinsukia in AprilIndia · 442 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 19.9°C · 329 mm rain
- Dibrugarh in AprilIndia · 462 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.7°C · 383 mm rain
- Kangding in AprilChina · 474 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 0.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Lijiang in AprilChina · 559 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 6.8°C · 45 mm rain
- Lhoka in AprilChina · 560 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 0.7°C · 37 mm rain
- Jorhat in AprilIndia · 566 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 20.3°C · 254 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 Qamdo) is explained once on the Qamdo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.