Ideal weather days in Guangzhou
The best time to visit Guangzhou for warm, dry weather is November to March, with 20 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Guangzhou's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in November to March.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Guangzhou, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet114
- Too hot107
- Too windy26
- Too cold18
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), Guangzhou averaged 154 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 October (up to 9 a month, 34 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in January (up to 15 a month, 49 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 114 a year, mostly in April to September. Another 107 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in June to September. A day can fail more than one test.
Guangzhou weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23 °C 73 °F | 4 | 4 | 4 | 21 of 31 |
| February | 25 °C 76 °F | 3 | 3 | 3 | 20 of 28 |
| March | 27 °C 80 °F | 10 | 3 | 1 | 20 of 31 |
| April | 29 °C 84 °F | 13 | 0 | 1 | 15 of 30 |
| May | 32 °C 89 °F | 16 | 0 | 0 | 12 of 31 |
| June | 34 °C 93 °F | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 of 30 |
| July | 36 °C 97 °F | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 95 °F | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 of 31 |
| September | 35 °C 95 °F | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 31 °C 88 °F | 6 | 8 | 1 | 15 of 31 |
| November | 28 °C 82 °F | 3 | 3 | 4 | 25 of 30 |
| December | 23 °C 73 °F | 2 | 5 | 3 | 22 of 31 |
| Year | 127 | 26 | 19 | 154 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 153 warm, dry days
- 2024 148 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Guangzhou for good weather?
The best time to visit Guangzhou for warm, dry weather is November to March, with 20 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in October (up to 9 a month, 34 a year). Counted from measured days at Baiyun International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Guangzhou?
On average 127 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (20 rain days), the driest December (2).
How many sunny days does Guangzhou get a year?
About 19 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 November (4).
How warm does Guangzhou get?
The median daily high ranged from 23 °C (73 °F) in December to 36 °C (97 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Hong Kong130 km, Hong Kong208 days
- Hanoi800 km, Vietnam188 days
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- Da Nang950 km, Vietnam161 days
- Manila1250 km, Philippines152 days
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- Chongqing 115 days
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Source: Baiyun International weather station (59287099999), 29 km from the centre of Guangzhou, 15 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.