Climate averages 1991–2020

Qamdo weather
in July.

A mild, wet month: the warmest and the wettest 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.

Average high 21.2°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 11.7°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 143 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a mild month in Qamdo: daytime highs average 21.2°C and nights cool to about 11.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 143 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes July a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 57 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gengqing (153 km away). In July its highs average 12.2°C, 9.0°C cooler than Qamdo, with 174 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qamdo ranks joint 877th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 182nd of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Qamdo is 8.9°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 20.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 143 mm to 134 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages 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

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Qamdo, 1991–2020
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	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, selected	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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Qamdo

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 limits

How 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.