Climate and average weather in Songyang

In Songyang, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: late August to early November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Songyang typically varies from -4°C to 30°C, and is rarely below -8°C or above 34°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Songyang for warm-weather activities are from late March to early June and late August to early November.

Hottest
Jul
30°
Coldest
Jan
-4°
Wettest
Jul
204 mm
Driest
Dec
11 mm
Rain / yr
834 mm
95 wet days
Daylight
9.7–14.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
369 m
34.5°N
Clearest
Dec
42% cloud

Songyang weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late August to early November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Songyang, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.7 months, from May 2 to September 22, with daily high temperatures above 23°C. The hottest month of the year in Songyang is July, with an average high of 30°C and low of 22°C.

The cool season lasts 2.8 months, from November 28 to February 21, with daily high temperatures below 9°C. The coldest month of the year in Songyang is January, with an average low of -4°C and high of 4°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in April.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan4-4
Feb8-1
Mar144
Apr2010
May2615
Jun3020
Jul3022
Aug2821
Sep2416
Oct1911
Nov124
Dec6-2

How hot and cold Songyang really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Songyang feels like about 34°C (around July 28). About 37 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -7°C (around January 12), with roughly 108 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan44-7-4
Feb88-4-1
Mar141424
Apr2020910
May26261515
Jun30302020
Jul33302222
Aug31282121
Sep24241616
Oct19191011
Nov121224
Dec66-5-2

Average hourly temperature in Songyang

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -4°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Songyang weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -4°112.62.8100.0
Feb / -1°173.42.110.71.4
Mar14° / 285.81.211.74.3
Apr20° / 10°446.50.212.86.8
May26° / 15°737.9013.86.9
Jun30° / 20°1009.9014.35.1
Jul30° / 22°20417.5014.14.1
Aug28° / 21°16617.3013.34.9
Sep24° / 16°10010.3012.26.7
Oct19° / 11°506.1011.16.7
Nov12° / 325.21.310.23.7
Dec / -2°112.729.70.6

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Songyang gets about 834 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.9 months, from around Jun 5 to Sep 30, peaking in August at about 63% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Dec 19.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 204 mm over about 18 wet days; December is the driest, with 11 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 3 · 63%Dec 19 · 7%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan83
Feb123
Mar196
Apr217
May258
Jun3310
Jul5718
Aug5417
Sep3510
Oct206
Nov185
Dec83

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Songyang collects about 834 mm of rain across 95 wet days — roughly 70 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 204 mm, while December is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1117284473100204166100503211
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1133
Feb1732
Mar2861
Apr4470
May7380
Jun100100
Jul204180
Aug166170
Sep100100
Oct5060
Nov3251
Dec1132

Snow in Songyang

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Songyang averages about 10 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 3 to Mar 27 — about 4.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 11 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 47 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 13
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan311
Feb211
Mar15
Apr01
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov112
Dec27

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Songyang, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around October 18 and lasts for 4.1 months, ending around February 20. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around February 21 and lasts for 7.9 months, ending around October 17. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 22 · 64%Jul 13 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb5248
Mar4555
Apr4357
May3961
Jun4159
Jul3664
Aug4357
Sep4456
Oct4951
Nov5842
Dec6337

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 11, brings about 14 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.07:395:35
Feb10.77:216:04
Mar11.76:466:30
Apr12.86:026:54
May13.85:307:18
Jun14.35:197:37
Jul14.15:317:36
Aug13.35:537:11
Sep12.26:166:29
Oct11.16:395:47
Nov10.27:085:18
Dec9.77:335:15

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Songyang averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around Oct 14 to Feb 23. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 16 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 6 sunny days — about 60% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2216 daysJul 176 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan14Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar10Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun8Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep10Mixed
Oct12Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec16Bright

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Songyang, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around May 29 to September 25. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 26 to May 28, and March is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 22 · 100%Jul 24 · 0%miserablehumidcomfortablemuggyoppressivedrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar10000000
Apr9172000
May592514200
Jun1621312480
Jul019324314
Aug1515333412
Sep2527291540
Oct84124000
Nov10000000
Dec10000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Songyang is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 20 · 9 km/hAug 14 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov8calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Songyang

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

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

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

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

Best time to visit Songyang

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Songyang throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late October, Songyang is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Songyang for general outdoor tourist activities run from late March to early June and again from late August to early November, with a peak score in the last week of April.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 30 · 7.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb1.5poor
Mar4.3fair
Apr6.7good
May6.9good
Jun5.1fair
Jul4.1fair
Aug5.0fair
Sep6.6good
Oct6.7good
Nov3.7fair
Dec0.7poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Songyang for hot-weather activities run from early May to mid July and again from mid August to late September, with a peak score in the first week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 5 · 7.1

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Songyang, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 30°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 4°C), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Songyang sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Songyang by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Songyang peaks around July 16 at about 10 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 11 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highVery highHighModerateJul 16UV 10Jan 11UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar6High
Apr6High
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug7High
Sep7High
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Songyang

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb30
Mar5.50
Apr60
May85
Jun84.5
Jul8.56
Aug73
Sep62
Oct4.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Songyang by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Songyang is worst in January — around 311 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 2.3× the cleanest month (July, 134 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120150180210240270300330JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecVery unhealthyUnhealthyVery unhealthyJan 17306 µg/m³Jul 19135 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan311Very unhealthy
Feb272Very unhealthy
Mar242Very unhealthy
Apr204Very unhealthy
May170Very unhealthy
Jun152Very unhealthy
Jul134Unhealthy
Aug143Unhealthy
Sep188Very unhealthy
Oct234Very unhealthy
Nov252Very unhealthy
Dec269Very unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Songyang typically lasts about 284 days, from around February 22 to December 2 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from March 20 to November 12.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonJan 2710%Feb 2250%Mar 2090%Nov 1290%Dec 250%Jan 610%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan931
Feb3828
Mar8419
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov8319
Dec2731

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Songyang banks about 2,364 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar10
Apr154
May323
Jun441
Jul499
Aug458
Sep313
Oct157
Nov8
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Songyang receives about 4.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.6 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 9 to Sep 7. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.6 kWh/m² — roughly 56% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 116.1 kWhDec 102.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.9Moderate
Feb3.6Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.0Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug4.7Bright
Sep4.1Bright
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov2.8Moderate
Dec2.6Moderate

Where is Songyang?

Songyang sits at 34.5°N, 113.0°E, 369 m above sea level, in China. The nearest listed city is Luoyang, 60 km away.

Xi'anJinanWuhanNanjingDatongTianjin

Topography around Songyang

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Songyang has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 647 m around an average of 413 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,253 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,400 m.

The land around Songyang is covered by artificial surfaces (47%) within 3 km, cropland (35%), trees (27%) and grassland (26%) within 16 km, and cropland (56%) within 80 km.

3 km
647 m
16 km
1,253 m
80 km
1,400 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Luoyang 60 km · Zhengzhou 66 km · Xi'an 377 km · Jinan 435 km · Wuhan 446 km · Nanjing 597 km · Datong 627 km · Tianjin 638 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 Songyang (34.4555°, 113.0319°, elevation 369 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).