Beijing weather in July

In July, Beijing sees average daytime highs of 32°C and overnight lows near 23°C, with 160 mm of rain across 12.8 wet days and about 14.5 hours of daylight. It is the 1st-warmest and 1st-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 32°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 29% of the time in July, and the air most often feels oppressive.

Daylight stretches from about 14 h 48 min at the start of July to 14 h 12 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, July is Beijing's 12th-clearest and 11th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Beijing's year-round climate.

Daytime high
32°
1st warmest
Overnight low
23°
12th coldest
Rainfall
160 mm
12.8 wet days
Daylight
14 h 36 min
5:03 AM – 7:37 PM
Cloud cover
61%
12th clearest
Wind
7 km/h
11th windiest
Solar energy
5.18 kWh/m²
Travel score
3.5
out of 10

Beijing is capital city of China.

Air quality
Very high
PM2.5 50.6 µg/m³ · 2018
Density
1,155/km²
people per km²
Founded
1403

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Temperature in July

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 32°C through the month.

A typical July day in Beijing reaches about 32°C in the afternoon and slips back to 23°C overnight — a 10°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 28°C and 37°C. Set against its neighbours, July runs on par with June and about 1°C warmer than August.

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How July really feels in Beijing

Once humidity and wind are folded in, July averages 31 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
31
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in July is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Beijing weather by month

How July compares with the rest of the year at a glance. July is the 1st-warmest and 1st-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -8°30.80.99.50.0
Feb / -5°51.31.110.40.8
Mar13° / 92.30.611.74.7
Apr22° / 193.90.1137.8
May29° / 15°355014.26.4
Jun32° / 20°747.8014.84.0
Jul32° / 23°16012.8014.53.5
Aug31° / 22°11910.5013.64.4
Sep27° / 16°577.1012.36.9
Oct20° / 334.3010.97.4
Nov10° / -1°142.10.99.83.1
Dec / -6°311.19.20.0

Cloud cover in July

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 29% of the time in July, the cloudiest month of the year.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 15% of July, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 56%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
14753
24753
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Chance of precipitation in July

Any precipitation

Beijing gets around 160 mm of rain over 12.8 wet days in July, the wettest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 41% and peaks near 44% on the wettest days. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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436
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939
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Humidity in July

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of July feels oppressive — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, July lands in the oppressive band about 37% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 79% of them.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
110132333202
29122233222
39112133242
48112033253
58101933273
67101834284
7691834294
8591734315
9581634325
10471634336
11371534347
12361434358
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142513333710
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161412313813
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191311294017
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Wind in July

Winds average 7 km/h in July.

Across July, daily wind ranges from about 6 km/h on the calmest days to 7 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Sunrise & sunset in July

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 14 h 48 min at the start of July to 14 h 12 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 36 minutes over July. Sunrise moves from 4:54 AM to 5:16 AM, and sunset from 7:42 PM to 7:25 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
114.84:547:42
214.84:547:42
314.84:557:42
414.84:557:41
514.84:567:41
614.74:567:41
714.74:577:41
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2714.35:127:29
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2914.25:147:27
3014.25:157:26
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Solar energy in July

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in July, about 5.18 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 2.26 kWh/m² to a high of 6.12 kWh/m² in May across the year — July's 5.18 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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255.0Bright
264.9Bright
274.9Bright
284.9Bright
294.9Bright
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314.9Bright
Planning a trip in July

Hazard calendar for Beijing

In seasonPeak

In July, Beijing sits inside its rainy season season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Beijing's rainy season runs June–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

Beijing sees seasonal dust haze (April–June), heaviest in May.

Rainy season
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Is July a good time to visit Beijing?

Our two travel scores rate July for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

3.5
Sightseeing
8th-best month of the year
5.9
Beach & pool
5th-best month of the year

July is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Beijing.

What to pack for Beijing in July

From July's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In July, Beijing sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 13 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Beijing in July

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in July peaks around 6 — enough to warrant sun protection. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Beijing peaks around June 11 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 21 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 11UV 7Dec 21UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar3Moderate
Apr6High
May7High
Jun7Very high
Jul6High
Aug5High
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Air quality in Beijing in July

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where July falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Beijing is worst in January — around 69 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.0× the cleanest month (June, 34 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Beijing's WHO annual average of 50.6 µg/m³.

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 1168 µg/m³Jun 1734 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan69Unhealthy
Feb63Unhealthy
Mar57Unhealthy
Apr41Poor
May35Poor
Jun34Moderate
Jul35Moderate
Aug37Poor
Sep46Poor
Oct57Unhealthy
Nov67Unhealthy
Dec67Unhealthy
Location & terrain

Where is Beijing?

Beijing sits at 39.9°N, 116.4°E, 49 m above sea level, in China. The nearest listed city is Tianjin, 108 km away.

JinanDalianQingdaoZhengzhouSongyang

Topography around Beijing

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Beijing.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Beijing has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 51 m around an average of 48 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 107 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,093 m.

The land around Beijing is covered by artificial surfaces (82%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (70%) and trees (21%) within 16 km, and cropland (35%), trees (34%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
51 m
16 km
107 m
80 km
2,093 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
July weather nearby: Tianjin 108 km · Chengde 176 km · Datong 265 km · Jinan 364 km · Dalian 461 km · Qingdao 552 km · Zhengzhou 622 km · Songyang 675 km

China travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / I
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 47% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$13,862
2025
Happiness
6.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
0.5
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
17.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 464
Religion
unaffiliated 52%folk religion 22%Buddhist 18%Christian 5%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Beijing (39.9075°, 116.3972°, elevation 49 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).