Climate averages 1991–2020

Sanming weather
in June.

A hot, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.1°C Daytime mean, June
Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, June
Rainfall 251 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Sanming · average highYear overview

June is a hot month in Sanming: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 251 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes June a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 45 min on an average June day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nanping (71 km away). In June its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Sanming, with 271 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Sanming ranks joint 84th of 884 for the warmest June highs and joint 644th of 884 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 884 cities is 28.4°C; Sanming is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.

From June to July, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 34.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 251 mm to 145 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. 510152025303540 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 3000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Sanming climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Sanming, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 15.7°C7.3°C7.3°C628.910.711 h
February 17.6°C8.9°C8.9°C8111.311.311 h
March 20.9°C12.1°C12.1°C15616.412.012 h
April 25.6°C16.6°C16.6°C18016.712.813 h
May 28.8°C20.5°C20.5°C22217.913.413 h
June, selected 31.1°C23.5°C23.5°C25117.913.814 h
July 34.4°C25.1°C25.1°C14513.713.614 h
August 33.6°C25.0°C25.0°C17317.613.113 h
September 31.0°C22.7°C22.7°C10312.112.312 h
October 27.2°C18.3°C18.3°C516.511.612 h
November 22.3°C13.4°C13.4°C526.610.911 h
December 17.1°C8.4°C8.4°C516.610.511 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 Sanming

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 Sanming) is explained once on the Sanming year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.