Ideal weather days in Shanghai
The best time to visit Shanghai for warm, dry weather is April, May and October, with 21 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Shanghai's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April, May 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 Shanghai, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold109
- Too wet89
- Too hot68
- Too windy2
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), Shanghai averaged 132 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 May and September (up to 18 a month, 88 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in April, October and November (up to 16 a month, 78 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 109 a year, mostly in December to March. Another 89 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in May to July and September to October. A day can fail more than one test.
Shanghai weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12 °C 53 °F | 5 | 0 | 2 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 50 °F | 9 | 0 | 2 of 28 |
| March | 17 °C 62 °F | 9 | 0 | 12 of 31 |
| April | 24 °C 74 °F | 6 | 0 | 23 of 30 |
| May | 28 °C 82 °F | 8 | 0 | 21 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 87 °F | 13 | 0 | 11 of 30 |
| July | 35 °C 95 °F | 10 | 1 | 4 of 31 |
| August | 36 °C 96 °F | 7 | 0 | 3 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 89 °F | 11 | 1 | 12 of 30 |
| October | 25 °C 76 °F | 9 | 0 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 20 °C 68 °F | 6 | 0 | 16 of 30 |
| December | 12 °C 53 °F | 3 | 0 | 4 of 31 |
| Year | 95 | 2 | 132 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 149 warm, dry days
- 2024 122 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Shanghai for good weather?
The best time to visit Shanghai for warm, dry weather is April, May and October, with 21 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in May and September (up to 18 a month, 88 a year). Counted from measured days at Shanghai station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Shanghai?
On average 95 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was June (13 rain days), the driest December (3).
How warm does Shanghai get?
The median daily high ranged from 10 °C (50 °F) in February to 36 °C (96 °F) in August.
Nearby
More cities in China
- Kunming 206 days
- Kashgar 173 days
- Guangzhou 154 days
- Shenyang 142 days
- Beijing 139 days
- Chengdu 137 days
- Ürümqi 129 days
- Xi'an 124 days
- Harbin 119 days
- Chongqing 115 days
Where is the best climate in China?
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Source: Shanghai weather station (58362099999), 19 km from the centre of Shanghai, 4 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 85% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.