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Xi'an weather by month

Xi'an runs from about 1°C in January to 29°C in August, with July the wettest month at 207 mm.

warmest month

August

29°C

coolest month

January

1°C

wettest month

July

207 mm

worst air month

January

91 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Xi'an
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January1°C6 mm229 h91
February3°C16 mm164 h72
March12°C25 mm255 h67
April19°C31 mm218 h50
May24°C46 mm280 h38
June27°C28 mm265 h37
July27°C207 mm216 h36
August29°C50 mm319 h40
September26°C58 mm296 h47
October16°C37 mm225 h57
November10°C43 mm158 h63
December2°C2 mm223 h85

About 2,848 hours of sun a year. Roughly 57 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-23. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.