Ideal weather days in Chengdu
The best time to visit Chengdu for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 19 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Chengdu's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May and October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Chengdu, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold109
- Too wet100
- Too hot52
- Too windy0
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), Chengdu averaged 137 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 June (up to 19 a month, 80 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October and November (up to 22 a month, 99 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 109 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 100 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in April to May and July to September. A day can fail more than one test.
Chengdu weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13 °C 55 °F | 1 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 13 °C 55 °F | 7 | 0 | 4 of 28 |
| March | 19 °C 65 °F | 9 | 0 | 15 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 80 °F | 14 | 0 | 17 of 30 |
| May | 30 °C 85 °F | 11 | 0 | 19 of 31 |
| June | 32 °C 89 °F | 7 | 0 | 18 of 30 |
| July | 33 °C 91 °F | 15 | 0 | 5 of 31 |
| August | 34 °C 93 °F | 14 | 0 | 6 of 31 |
| September | 31 °C 87 °F | 15 | 0 | 12 of 30 |
| October | 23 °C 73 °F | 12 | 0 | 22 of 31 |
| November | 19 °C 66 °F | 5 | 0 | 17 of 30 |
| December | 13 °C 55 °F | 3 | 0 | 1 of 31 |
| Year | 114 | 0 | 137 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 154 warm, dry days
- 2024 131 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Chengdu for good weather?
The best time to visit Chengdu for warm, dry weather is May and October, with 19 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in May and June (up to 19 a month, 80 a year). Counted from measured days at Wenjiang station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Chengdu?
On average 114 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (15 rain days), the driest January (1).
How warm does Chengdu get?
The median daily high ranged from 13 °C (55 °F) in December to 34 °C (93 °F) in August.
Nearby
More cities in China
- Kashgar 173 days
- Qingdao 157 days
- Guangzhou 154 days
- Shenyang 142 days
- Beijing 139 days
- Shanghai 132 days
- Ürümqi 129 days
- Harbin 119 days
Where is the best climate in China?
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Source: Wenjiang weather station (56187099999), 28 km from the centre of Chengdu, 541 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 86% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.