Ideal weather days in Qingdao
The best time to visit Qingdao for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 25 to 27 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Qingdao's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May, September 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 Qingdao, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold140
- Too wet49
- Too windy35
- Too hot26
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), Qingdao averaged 157 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 August and September (up to 16 a month, 63 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October (up to 19 a month, 40 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 140 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 49 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Qingdao weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7 °C 45 °F | 2 | 5 | 18 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 8 °C 46 °F | 4 | 3 | 17 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 14 °C 57 °F | 3 | 4 | 16 | 7 of 31 |
| April | 20 °C 68 °F | 3 | 4 | 12 | 21 of 30 |
| May | 26 °C 79 °F | 4 | 3 | 8 | 25 of 31 |
| June | 30 °C 86 °F | 7 | 2 | 10 | 17 of 30 |
| July | 32 °C 90 °F | 11 | 1 | 4 | 12 of 31 |
| August | 33 °C 91 °F | 8 | 1 | 7 | 13 of 31 |
| September | 30 °C 86 °F | 4 | 1 | 6 | 26 of 30 |
| October | 24 °C 75 °F | 4 | 1 | 18 | 27 of 31 |
| November | 16 °C 61 °F | 2 | 5 | 12 | 10 of 30 |
| December | 7 °C 45 °F | 2 | 5 | 19 | 1 of 31 |
| Year | 53 | 35 | 147 | 157 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 171 warm, dry days
- 2024 151 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Qingdao for good weather?
The best time to visit Qingdao for warm, dry weather is May, September and October, with 25 to 27 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in August and September (up to 16 a month, 63 a year). Counted from measured days at Liuting Qingdao International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Qingdao?
On average 53 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (11 rain days), the driest November (2).
How many sunny days does Qingdao get a year?
About 147 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 December (19).
How warm does Qingdao get?
The median daily high ranged from 7 °C (45 °F) in January to 33 °C (91 °F) in August.
Nearby
- Shanghai550 km132 days
- Beijing550 km139 days
- Shenyang690 km142 days
- Wuhan830 km142 days
- Harbin1200 km119 days
- Naha1300 km, Japan162 days
More cities in China
- Kunming 206 days
- Kashgar 173 days
- Guangzhou 154 days
- Chengdu 137 days
- Ürümqi 129 days
- Xi'an 124 days
- Chongqing 115 days
Where is the best climate in China?
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Source: Liuting Qingdao International weather station (54857099999), 22 km from the centre of Qingdao, 10 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.