Climate averages 1991–2020
Taiyuan weather
in July.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Taiyuan: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes July a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 31 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinzhong (27 km away). In July its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Taiyuan, with 100 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Taiyuan ranks joint 598th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 88th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Taiyuan is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 1.9°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 110 mm to 99 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Taiyuan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.5°C-8.6°C | -8.6°C | 3.5 | 1.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 6.4°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 7.2 | 2.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 12.4°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 16 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 30 | 5.0 | 13.213 h |
| May | 25.3°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 36 | 6.1 | 14.214 h |
| June | 29.2°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 55 | 9.2 | 14.715 h |
| July, selected | 29.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 110 | 12.9 | 14.515 h |
| August | 27.9°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 99 | 11.3 | 13.614 h |
| September | 23.5°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 65 | 7.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.5°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 35 | 5.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.7°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 16 | 3.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 3.4°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 3.2 | 1.1 | 9.610 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
July in nearby cities
- Jinzhong in JulyChina · 27 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 18.8°C · 100 mm rain
- Xinzhou in JulyChina · 62 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 18.4°C · 100 mm rain
- Yangquan in JulyChina · 88 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 18.8°C · 139 mm rain
- Yuanping in JulyChina · 96 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 18.1°C · 111 mm rain
- Jiexiu in JulyChina · 110 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 20.1°C · 116 mm rain
- Lüliang in JulyChina · 131 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 19.3°C · 116 mm rain
- Shuozhou in JulyChina · 161 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 16.0°C · 121 mm rain
- Shijiazhuang in JulyChina · 169 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 22.6°C · 155 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 Taiyuan) is explained once on the Taiyuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.