Yushu, China Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 17°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -18°C. A normal year brings 501 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 25
- Normal high
- 12°C
- Normal low
- -2°C
- Reanalysis high
- 17°Cin 1994
- Reanalysis low
- -6°Cin 1997
- Chance of a wet day
- 54%
- Daylight
- 12 h 03 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4°C | -18°C | 5°C (2007) | -26°C (2000) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| February | -2°C | -16°C | 8°C (2017) | -27°C (2008) | 6 mm | 2.8 |
| March | 2°C | -10°C | 14°C (2007) | -23°C (1994) | 9 mm | 3.1 |
| April | 7°C | -6°C | 18°C (1999) | -12°C (2019) | 18 mm | 6.0 |
| May | 12°C | -3°C | 22°C (1995) | -9°C (2017) | 56 mm | 15.5 |
| June | 15°C | 0°C | 24°C (1995) | -7°C (2013) | 105 mm | 21.0 |
| July | 17°C | 2°C | 23°C (2001) | -5°C (1994) | 99 mm | 18.6 |
| August | 16°C | 2°C | 24°C (2016) | -7°C (1993) | 90 mm | 18.6 |
| September | 13°C | -1°C | 20°C (2011) | -8°C (1992) | 78 mm | 18.0 |
| October | 7°C | -5°C | 16°C (2007) | -15°C (2002) | 31 mm | 9.3 |
| November | 1°C | -12°C | 9°C (2020) | -22°C (2018) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| December | -3°C | -17°C | 5°C (2016) | -26°C (2010) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| Year | 7°C | -7°C | 501 mm | 113 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
501 mm in a normal year, most in June.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Yushu.
Days with a mean dew point of 18°C or more are rare here in every month.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -20°C | 54% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -18°C | 52% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -15°C | 47% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | -12°C | 46% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | -7°C | 52% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 0°C | 62% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 2°C | 66% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 2°C | 66% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | -1°C | 68% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | -7°C | 63% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | -14°C | 55% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -19°C | 54% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is November, with the sky 54 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is March, at 76 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is February, averaging 17.3 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 16, with 14 h 20 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 19, with 9 h 58 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Yushu in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.