Ideal weather days in Beijing
The best time to visit Beijing for warm, dry weather is April to May and September to October, with 24 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Beijing's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April to May and September to October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Beijing, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold135
- Too hot58
- Too wet46
- Too windy23
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Beijing averaged 139 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in China, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in May and September (up to 22 a month, 90 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October (up to 25 a month, 68 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 135 a year, mostly in November to February. Another 58 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in June and July. A day can fail more than one test.
Beijing weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6 °C 42 °F | 0 | 4 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 8 °C 46 °F | 1 | 2 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 17 °C 62 °F | 1 | 3 | 12 of 31 |
| April | 25 °C 76 °F | 3 | 2 | 24 of 30 |
| May | 29 °C 84 °F | 6 | 1 | 25 of 31 |
| June | 35 °C 95 °F | 4 | 0 | 5 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 94 °F | 13 | 0 | 4 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 14 | 0 | 10 of 31 |
| September | 29 °C 83 °F | 5 | 0 | 26 of 30 |
| October | 23 °C 73 °F | 2 | 1 | 27 of 31 |
| November | 14 °C 57 °F | 2 | 6 | 5 of 30 |
| December | 6 °C 43 °F | 2 | 4 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 52 | 23 | 139 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h. Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month. This station doesn't report cloud cover reliably, so clear days aren’t counted here.
Year by year
- 2023 138 warm, dry days
- 2024 142 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Beijing for good weather?
The best time to visit Beijing for warm, dry weather is April to May and September to October, with 24 to 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in May and September (up to 22 a month, 90 a year). Counted from measured days at Beijing Capital International Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Beijing?
On average 52 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (14 rain days), the driest January (0).
How warm does Beijing get?
The median daily high ranged from 6 °C (42 °F) in January to 35 °C (95 °F) in June.
Nearby
- Qingdao550 km157 days
- Shenyang630 km142 days
- Xi'an910 km124 days
- Wuhan1050 km142 days
- Harbin1050 km119 days
- Irkutsk1660 km, Russia94 days
More cities in China
- Kunming 206 days
- Kashgar 173 days
- Guangzhou 154 days
- Chengdu 137 days
- Shanghai 132 days
- Ürümqi 129 days
- Chongqing 115 days
Where is the best climate in China?
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Source: Beijing Capital International Airport weather station (54511099999), 25 km from the centre of Beijing, 35 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.