Geography and Climate
Xuzhou is located in the southeast of the North China Plain. Xuzhou has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), with cool winters, warm springs, long, hot and humid summers, and crisp autumns. Monthly daily averages range from 0.4 °C (32.7 °F) in January to 27.1 °C (80.8 °F) in July. Snow may occur during winter, though rarely heavily. Precipitation is light in winter, and the annual total of 830 millimetres (32.7 in) is heavily concentrated from May to September.
| Climate data for Xuzhou (1971−2000) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 5.2 (41.4) |
7.8 (46.0) |
13.4 (56.1) |
20.9 (69.6) |
26.3 (79.3) |
30.4 (86.7) |
31.4 (88.5) |
30.6 (87.1) |
26.9 (80.4) |
21.5 (70.7) |
14.1 (57.4) |
7.7 (45.9) |
19.6 (67.3) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −3.3 (26.1) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
3.2 (37.8) |
9.8 (49.6) |
15.1 (59.2) |
20.2 (68.4) |
23.5 (74.3) |
22.7 (72.9) |
17.4 (63.3) |
10.9 (51.6) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
10.0 (50.0) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 17.6 (0.693) |
20.5 (0.807) |
36.0 (1.417) |
47.1 (1.854) |
65.5 (2.579) |
106.8 (4.205) |
241.0 (9.488) |
132.6 (5.22) |
72.3 (2.846) |
51.5 (2.028) |
26.7 (1.051) |
14.0 (0.551) |
831.6 (32.74) |
| % humidity | 66 | 64 | 62 | 62 | 64 | 67 | 80 | 81 | 74 | 70 | 69 | 66 | 68.8 |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.0 | 5.4 | 6.4 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 13.5 | 9.9 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 84.5 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 144.8 | 147.5 | 177.0 | 210.5 | 232.7 | 218.6 | 191.9 | 202.8 | 188.3 | 190.8 | 164.2 | 151.8 | 2,220.9 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
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