Climate averages 1991–2020
Qufu weather
in December.
A cold, very dry month: the 11th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Qufu: daytime highs average 6.8°C and nights cool to about -2.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 11 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes December a very dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 48 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yanzhou (15 km away). In December its highs average 7.0°C, about as warm as Qufu, with 11 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qufu ranks joint 530th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 260th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Qufu is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 5.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 11 mm to 9.6 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Qufu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 9.6 | 2.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.8°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 15 | 3.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 14.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 25 | 3.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.3°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 40 | 5.4 | 13.113 h |
| May | 26.6°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 61 | 6.0 | 14.014 h |
| June | 30.9°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 83 | 7.5 | 14.515 h |
| July | 31.1°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 230 | 14.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.8°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 186 | 13.0 | 13.514 h |
| September | 26.3°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 77 | 7.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.1°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 32 | 4.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 29 | 4.1 | 10.310 h |
| December, selected | 6.8°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 11 | 2.5 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Yanzhou in DecemberChina · 15 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low -2.7°C · 11 mm rain
- Zoucheng in DecemberChina · 22 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -2.4°C · 11 mm rain
- Ningyang in DecemberChina · 26 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -3.0°C · 9.8 mm rain
- Sishui in DecemberChina · 26 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -2.4°C · 11 mm rain
- Jining in DecemberChina · 43 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low -2.2°C · 10 mm rain
- Pingyi in DecemberChina · 59 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low -2.9°C · 12 mm rain
- Chengtangcun in DecemberChina · 60 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low -1.9°C · 12 mm rain
- Tai’an in DecemberChina · 66 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low -2.9°C · 9.0 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 Qufu) is explained once on the Qufu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Zoucheng lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.