Climate averages 1991–2020

Qamdo weather
in June.

A mild, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 10th 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.

Average high 20.8°C Daytime mean, June
Average low 9.5°C Night-time mean, June
Rainfall 105 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Qamdo · average highYear overview

June is a mild month in Qamdo: daytime highs average 20.8°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 105 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes June a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 08 min on an average June day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gengqing (153 km away). In June its highs average 10.7°C, 10.1°C cooler than Qamdo, with 167 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qamdo ranks 878th of 884 for the warmest June highs and joint 350th of 884 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 884 cities is 28.4°C; Qamdo is 7.6°C cooler than that mean.

From June to July, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 21.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 105 mm to 143 mm.

The annual picture

June in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -15-10-50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

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
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 2.1°C-11.8°C-11.8°C5.21.810.410 h
February 4.5°C-8.6°C-8.6°C113.111.111 h
March 6.7°C-6.3°C-6.3°C236.812.012 h
April 11.3°C-1.5°C-1.5°C3910.612.913 h
May 17.0°C4.3°C4.3°C6413.513.714 h
June, selected 20.8°C9.5°C9.5°C10519.714.114 h
July 21.2°C11.7°C11.7°C14323.014.014 h
August 20.9°C11.4°C11.4°C13421.413.313 h
September 19.4°C8.8°C8.8°C9317.612.412 h
October 13.7°C2.0°C2.0°C4610.311.411 h
November 5.8°C-7.1°C-7.1°C133.710.611 h
December 2.1°C-11.5°C-11.5°C4.91.710.210 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

June 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.