Climate averages 1991–2020
Qingdao weather
in September.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Qingdao: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 20.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes September a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 27 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jimo (37 km away). In September its highs average 25.4°C, 1.1°C warmer than Qingdao, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qingdao ranks joint 628th of 884 for the warmest September highs and joint 432nd of 884 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 884 cities is 25.7°C; Qingdao is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 85 mm to 44 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
Qingdao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.5°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 13 | 2.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 4.8°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 8.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 28 | 4.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 44 | 5.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 18.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 71 | 5.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 21.9°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 80 | 5.9 | 14.615 h |
| July | 25.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 158 | 10.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 27.2°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 163 | 11.2 | 13.514 h |
| September, selected | 24.3°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 85 | 6.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.2°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 44 | 5.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 39 | 5.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 6.0°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 20 | 3.6 | 9.810 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
- Jimo in SeptemberChina · 37 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 18.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Jiaozhou in SeptemberChina · 42 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 17.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Yinzhu in SeptemberChina · 42 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 19.1°C · 82 mm rain
- Nancun in SeptemberChina · 57 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 16.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Baicheng, China in SeptemberChina · 61 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 17.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Linjiacun in SeptemberChina · 66 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.2°C · 79 mm rain
- Gaomi in SeptemberChina · 67 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.9°C · 65 mm rain
- Jiangshan in SeptemberChina · 69 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 16.6°C · 65 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 Qingdao) is explained once on the Qingdao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.