Ideal weather days in Harbin
The best time to visit Harbin for warm, dry weather is May and July to September, with 20 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Harbin's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May and July to September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Harbin, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold191
- Too wet67
- Too windy6
- Too hot4
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), Harbin averaged 119 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 July and August (up to 20 a month, 62 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May and September (up to 15 a month, 59 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 191 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 67 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Harbin weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -9 °C 15 °F | 1 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -5 °C 22 °F | 2 | 1 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 5 °C 40 °F | 4 | 1 | 1 of 31 |
| April | 17 °C 63 °F | 5 | 1 | 10 of 30 |
| May | 23 °C 73 °F | 9 | 2 | 20 of 31 |
| June | 27 °C 81 °F | 14 | 0 | 14 of 30 |
| July | 30 °C 86 °F | 11 | 1 | 20 of 31 |
| August | 28 °C 82 °F | 12 | 0 | 20 of 31 |
| September | 25 °C 77 °F | 6 | 0 | 23 of 30 |
| October | 17 °C 62 °F | 3 | 0 | 11 of 31 |
| November | 1 °C 33 °F | 6 | 1 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -9 °C 15 °F | 1 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 74 | 6 | 119 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 121 warm, dry days
- 2024 119 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Harbin for good weather?
The best time to visit Harbin for warm, dry weather is May and July to September, with 20 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in July and August (up to 20 a month, 62 a year). Counted from measured days at Harbin station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Harbin?
On average 74 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (14 rain days), the driest January (1).
How warm does Harbin get?
The median daily high ranged from -9 °C (15 °F) in January to 30 °C (86 °F) in July.
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Where is the best climate in China?
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Source: Harbin weather station (50953099999), 15 km from the centre of Harbin, 118 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 84% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.