Ideal weather days in Xi'an
The best time to visit Xi'an for warm, dry weather is April and October, with 22 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Xi'an's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in April 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 Xi'an, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold132
- Too hot84
- Too wet51
- Too windy1
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), Xi'an averaged 124 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 September (up to 22 a month, 96 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in October (up to 21 a month, 74 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 132 a year, mostly in November to February. Another 84 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in June, July and August. A day can fail more than one test.
Xi'an weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9 °C 47 °F | 3 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 10 °C 49 °F | 4 | 0 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 19 °C 66 °F | 4 | 0 | 16 of 31 |
| April | 27 °C 80 °F | 4 | 0 | 22 of 30 |
| May | 31 °C 88 °F | 8 | 0 | 18 of 31 |
| June | 36 °C 96 °F | 6 | 0 | 8 of 30 |
| July | 36 °C 96 °F | 7 | 0 | 3 of 31 |
| August | 35 °C 95 °F | 6 | 0 | 6 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 90 °F | 5 | 1 | 18 of 30 |
| October | 23 °C 73 °F | 8 | 1 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 17 °C 62 °F | 2 | 0 | 7 of 30 |
| December | 8 °C 46 °F | 1 | 0 | 2 of 31 |
| Year | 58 | 1 | 124 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 132 warm, dry days
- 2024 123 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Xi'an for good weather?
The best time to visit Xi'an for warm, dry weather is April and October, with 22 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in September (up to 22 a month, 96 a year). Counted from measured days at Jinghe station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Xi'an?
On average 58 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (8 rain days), the driest December (1).
How warm does Xi'an get?
The median daily high ranged from 8 °C (46 °F) in December to 36 °C (96 °F) in June.
Nearby
More cities in China
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- Shanghai 132 days
- Ürümqi 129 days
- Harbin 119 days
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Source: Jinghe weather station (57131099999), 11 km from the centre of Xi'an, 411 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.