Climate averages 1991–2020
Shantou weather
in June.
A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
June is a hot month in Shantou: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 25.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 239 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes June a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 33 min on an average June day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chenghua (15 km away). In June its highs average 28.8°C, about as warm as Shantou, with 260 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shantou ranks joint 399th of 884 for the warmest June highs and joint 614th of 884 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 884 cities is 28.4°C; Shantou is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From June to July, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 239 mm to 188 mm.
The annual picture
June 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
Shantou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.8°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 45 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| February | 18.5°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 64 | 9.7 | 11.411 h |
| March | 21.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 79 | 11.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 113 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.1°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 185 | 15.9 | 13.313 h |
| June, selected | 29.1°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 239 | 20.6 | 13.514 h |
| July | 30.2°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 188 | 17.7 | 13.413 h |
| August | 30.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 238 | 18.7 | 12.913 h |
| September | 29.2°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 156 | 13.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 26.9°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 56 | 5.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 23.7°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 59 | 5.5 | 11.011 h |
| December | 19.6°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 51 | 5.8 | 10.711 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
- Chenghua in JuneChina · 15 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 24.9°C · 260 mm rain
- Haimen in JuneChina · 19 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 25.3°C · 246 mm rain
- Chaozhou in JuneChina · 34 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 294 mm rain
- Jieyang in JuneChina · 38 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 249 mm rain
- Huanggang (Guangdong), China in JuneChina · 49 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 24.5°C · 284 mm rain
- Puning in JuneChina · 52 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.7°C · 261 mm rain
- Huicheng (Guangdong), China in JuneChina · 53 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 25.4°C · 241 mm rain
- Jiazi in JuneChina · 81 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 25.5°C · 282 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 Shantou) is explained once on the Shantou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.