Climate averages 1991–2020
Taiyuan weather
in November.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a cool month in Taiyuan: daytime highs average 9.7°C and nights cool to about -0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 16 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes November a fairly dry month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 10 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinzhong (27 km away). In November its highs average 9.3°C, about as warm as Taiyuan, with 15 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Taiyuan ranks joint 666th of 884 for the warmest November highs and joint 137th of 884 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 884 cities is 13.7°C; Taiyuan is 4.0°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 6.3°C to 3.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 16 mm to 3.2 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Jinzhong in NovemberChina · 27 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low -1.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Xinzhou in NovemberChina · 62 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low -2.4°C · 15 mm rain
- Yangquan in NovemberChina · 88 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low -1.6°C · 18 mm rain
- Yuanping in NovemberChina · 96 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low -2.9°C · 16 mm rain
- Jiexiu in NovemberChina · 110 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 0.1°C · 17 mm rain
- Lüliang in NovemberChina · 131 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low -0.7°C · 21 mm rain
- Shuozhou in NovemberChina · 161 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -5.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Shijiazhuang in NovemberChina · 169 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 16 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.