Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhangzhou weather
in September.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a hot month in Zhangzhou: daytime highs average 30.1°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 142 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes September a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiamen (43 km away). In September its highs average 29.7°C, about as warm as Zhangzhou, with 131 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhangzhou ranks joint 38th of 884 for the warmest September highs and joint 732nd of 884 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 884 cities is 25.7°C; Zhangzhou is 4.4°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 142 mm to 43 mm.
The annual picture
September 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
Zhangzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.4°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 35 | 5.1 | 10.811 h |
| February | 19.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 52 | 8.1 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.9°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 80 | 10.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.6°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 103 | 12.9 | 12.713 h |
| May | 28.2°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 189 | 16.7 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.9°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 253 | 19.9 | 13.614 h |
| July | 31.8°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 200 | 18.1 | 13.513 h |
| August | 31.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 263 | 20.8 | 13.013 h |
| September, selected | 30.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 142 | 13.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.2°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 43 | 4.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.6°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 47 | 4.6 | 11.011 h |
| December | 20.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 39 | 4.9 | 10.611 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
September in nearby cities
- Xiamen in SeptemberChina · 43 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 24.0°C · 131 mm rain
- Longyan in SeptemberChina · 90 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 21.7°C · 126 mm rain
- Ximeicun in SeptemberChina · 91 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 123 mm rain
- Jinjiang in SeptemberChina · 99 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 24.1°C · 114 mm rain
- Quanzhou in SeptemberChina · 104 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 23.7°C · 123 mm rain
- Huanggang (Guangdong), China in SeptemberChina · 114 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 177 mm rain
- Chaozhou in SeptemberChina · 142 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.3°C · 187 mm rain
- Chenghua in SeptemberChina · 148 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.5°C · 151 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 Zhangzhou) is explained once on the Zhangzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.