Climate
Fuzhou has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa) influenced by the East Asian Monsoon; the summers are long, very hot and humid, the winters are short, mild and dry. In most years torrential rain occurs during the monsoon in the second half of May. Fuzhou is also liable to typhoons in late summer and early autumn. Monthly daily means range from 10.9 °C (51.6 °F) in January to 28.9 °C (84.0 °F) in July, while extreme temperatures have ranged from −1.7 °C (29 °F) to 41.7 °C (107 °F)
| Climate data for Fuzhou (1971−2000) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 15.2 (59.4) |
15.2 (59.4) |
18.1 (64.6) |
23.2 (73.8) |
26.7 (80.1) |
30.5 (86.9) |
34.1 (93.4) |
33.3 (91.9) |
30.2 (86.4) |
26.4 (79.5) |
22.0 (71.6) |
17.7 (63.9) |
24.4 (75.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 8.2 (46.8) |
8.3 (46.9) |
10.6 (51.1) |
15.0 (59.0) |
19.2 (66.6) |
23.0 (73.4) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.1 (77.2) |
23.0 (73.4) |
19.3 (66.7) |
14.8 (58.6) |
10.1 (50.2) |
16.8 (62.2) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 48.0 (1.89) |
86.6 (3.409) |
145.4 (5.724) |
166.5 (6.555) |
193.7 (7.626) |
208.9 (8.224) |
98.8 (3.89) |
179.7 (7.075) |
145.0 (5.709) |
47.6 (1.874) |
41.3 (1.626) |
32.0 (1.26) |
1,393.5 (54.862) |
| % humidity | 74 | 78 | 80 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 77 | 77 | 76 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 76.3 |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 9.7 | 14.4 | 17.5 | 17.8 | 18.2 | 15.9 | 10.4 | 12.1 | 11.6 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 149.0 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 101.6 | 79.2 | 89.1 | 111.0 | 114.4 | 141.9 | 225.6 | 199.2 | 153.7 | 144.2 | 120.3 | 126.9 | 1,607.1 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration | |||||||||||||
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