Ideal weather days in Kunming
The best time to visit Kunming for warm, dry weather is May to June and September to December, with 18 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Kunming's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May to June and September to December.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Kunming, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet77
- Too windy50
- Too cold44
- Too hot0
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), Kunming averaged 206 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 April (up to 14 a month, 35 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October (up to 15 a month, 57 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 77 a year, mostly in June, July and August. Another 50 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in February, March and April. A day can fail more than one test.
Kunming weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18 °C 64 °F | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 of 31 |
| February | 21 °C 69 °F | 1 | 9 | 5 | 14 of 28 |
| March | 23 °C 73 °F | 1 | 10 | 5 | 19 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 81 °F | 3 | 12 | 4 | 16 of 30 |
| May | 27 °C 81 °F | 8 | 5 | 1 | 19 of 31 |
| June | 26 °C 79 °F | 11 | 1 | 0 | 18 of 30 |
| July | 27 °C 81 °F | 16 | 2 | 0 | 15 of 31 |
| August | 28 °C 82 °F | 17 | 0 | 0 | 15 of 31 |
| September | 26 °C 79 °F | 9 | 2 | 0 | 21 of 30 |
| October | 23 °C 73 °F | 10 | 1 | 1 | 21 of 31 |
| November | 20 °C 68 °F | 4 | 1 | 1 | 22 of 30 |
| December | 19 °C 66 °F | 2 | 3 | 4 | 18 of 31 |
| Year | 86 | 49 | 24 | 206 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 224 warm, dry days
- 2024 193 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Kunming for good weather?
The best time to visit Kunming for warm, dry weather is May to June and September to December, with 18 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in April (up to 14 a month, 35 a year). Counted from measured days at Wujiaba Changshui station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Kunming?
On average 86 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was August (17 rain days), the driest February (1).
How many sunny days does Kunming get a year?
About 24 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 March (5).
How warm does Kunming get?
The median daily high ranged from 18 °C (64 °F) in January to 28 °C (82 °F) in August.
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Source: Wujiaba Changshui weather station (56778099999), 24 km from the centre of Kunming, 2103 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.