Ideal weather days in Chongqing
The best time to visit Chongqing for warm, dry weather is March, October and November, with 16 to 19 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Chongqing's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in March, October and November.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Chongqing, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold101
- Too hot96
- Too wet94
- 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), Chongqing averaged 115 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, mostly sunny) are most common in May (up to 10 a month, 38 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in November (up to 21 a month, 84 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 101 a year, mostly in December, January and February. Another 96 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in July, August and September. A day can fail more than one test.
Chongqing weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13 °C 55 °F | 6 | 0 | 11 | 1 of 31 |
| February | 15 °C 58 °F | 6 | 0 | 8 | 6 of 28 |
| March | 21 °C 69 °F | 9 | 0 | 8 | 16 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 81 °F | 15 | 0 | 7 | 15 of 30 |
| May | 30 °C 86 °F | 9 | 0 | 7 | 18 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 88 °F | 12 | 0 | 6 | 12 of 30 |
| July | 37 °C 99 °F | 12 | 0 | 5 | 2 of 31 |
| August | 38 °C 100 °F | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 of 31 |
| September | 37 °C 99 °F | 7 | 0 | 10 | 5 of 30 |
| October | 24 °C 75 °F | 14 | 0 | 6 | 19 of 31 |
| November | 21 °C 69 °F | 7 | 0 | 10 | 18 of 30 |
| December | 14 °C 56 °F | 5 | 0 | 9 | 3 of 31 |
| Year | 107 | 0 | 92 | 115 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; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 137 warm, dry days
- 2024 101 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Chongqing for good weather?
The best time to visit Chongqing for warm, dry weather is March, October and November, with 16 to 19 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in May (up to 10 a month, 38 a year). Counted from measured days at Jiangbei station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Chongqing?
On average 107 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was April (15 rain days), the driest December (5).
How many sunny days does Chongqing get a year?
About 92 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in January (11).
How warm does Chongqing get?
The median daily high ranged from 13 °C (55 °F) in January to 38 °C (100 °F) in August.
Nearby
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Source: Jiangbei weather station (57516099999), 20 km from the centre of Chongqing, 416 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.