Ideal weather days in Ürümqi
The best time to visit Ürümqi for warm, dry weather is May to June and August to September, with 19 to 22 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Ürümqi's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in May to June and August 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 Ürümqi, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold182
- Too wet51
- Too hot32
- Too windy3
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), Ürümqi averaged 129 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 June and August (up to 25 a month, 84 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May, September and October (up to 16 a month, 63 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 182 a year, mostly in November to March. Another 51 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to May and September to October. A day can fail more than one test.
Ürümqi weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3 °C 26 °F | 4 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -3 °C 26 °F | 2 | 0 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 9 °C 47 °F | 7 | 0 | 2 of 31 |
| April | 19 °C 66 °F | 7 | 1 | 13 of 30 |
| May | 25 °C 77 °F | 5 | 0 | 22 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 88 °F | 2 | 0 | 20 of 30 |
| July | 33 °C 91 °F | 4 | 0 | 14 of 31 |
| August | 32 °C 89 °F | 5 | 0 | 19 of 31 |
| September | 23 °C 73 °F | 5 | 1 | 22 of 30 |
| October | 18 °C 64 °F | 6 | 0 | 15 of 31 |
| November | 8 °C 46 °F | 5 | 0 | 1 of 30 |
| December | -5 °C 23 °F | 7 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 59 | 3 | 129 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 124 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Ürümqi for good weather?
The best time to visit Ürümqi for warm, dry weather is May to June and August to September, with 19 to 22 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in June and August (up to 25 a month, 84 a year). Counted from measured days at Wu Lu Mu Qi station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Ürümqi?
On average 59 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was March (7 rain days), the driest June (2).
How warm does Ürümqi get?
The median daily high ranged from -5 °C (23 °F) in December to 33 °C (91 °F) in July.
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Source: Wu Lu Mu Qi weather station (51463099999), 5 km from the centre of Ürümqi, 919 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 83% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.