Shangri-La, China Climate
The warmest month is June, with an average high of 20°C; the coldest is January, with an average low of -7°C. A normal year brings 651 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
- 16°C
- Normal low
- 6°C
- Reanalysis high
- 20°Cin 2008
- Reanalysis low
- 1°Cin 1997
- Chance of a wet day
- 46%
- Daylight
- 12 h 04 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 | 5°C | -7°C | 14°C (2006) | -14°C (1992) | 9 mm | 3.1 |
| February | 7°C | -5°C | 15°C (2014) | -13°C (2008) | 17 mm | 2.8 |
| March | 10°C | -3°C | 19°C (2007) | -10°C (2009) | 40 mm | 9.3 |
| April | 14°C | 0°C | 22°C (1998) | -6°C (1995) | 51 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 17°C | 4°C | 24°C (2005) | -2°C (2012) | 53 mm | 9.3 |
| June | 20°C | 8°C | 26°C (2005) | 2°C (2003) | 81 mm | 15.0 |
| July | 19°C | 9°C | 25°C (2006) | 2°C (2015) | 143 mm | 24.8 |
| August | 19°C | 9°C | 24°C (1994) | 2°C (1993) | 127 mm | 21.7 |
| September | 17°C | 7°C | 25°C (1995) | -1°C (1995) | 72 mm | 15.0 |
| October | 14°C | 2°C | 19°C (2007) | -6°C (2000) | 43 mm | 9.3 |
| November | 10°C | -3°C | 16°C (2014) | -8°C (2000) | 12 mm | 3.0 |
| December | 6°C | -5°C | 14°C (2016) | -12°C (2004) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| Year | 13°C | 1°C | 651 mm | 125 |
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.
651 mm in a normal year, most in July.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Shangri-La.
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 | -9°C | 67% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -7°C | 69% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -4°C | 69% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 0°C | 70% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 3°C | 69% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 8°C | 73% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 9°C | 78% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 9°C | 80% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 8°C | 81% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 3°C | 78% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | -3°C | 73% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -7°C | 67% | 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 December, with the sky 29 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is July, at 86 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 March, averaging 12.2 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 18, with 13 h 55 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 15, with 10 h 23 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 Shangri-La 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 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.