Linfeng climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Linfeng?

Linfeng has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.2 °C and it receives 1,417 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Linfeng?

The hottest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 18 August 2022, reaching 42.3 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Linfeng?

The coldest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 11 February 1945, at -6.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Linfeng?

Yes. Linfeng gets on average 1.8 cm of snow per year and has around 1 frost days.

Q: Has the climate of Linfeng warmed?

Yes: Linfeng warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Linfeng?

The wettest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 17 August 1957, with 129 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Linfeng?

The windiest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 23 May 1946, with winds reaching 44.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Linfeng?

The warmest month in Linfeng is August (28.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (7.7 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Linfeng?

Linfeng receives on average 1,417 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 168 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Linfeng?

Linfeng gets on average 6.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,190 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Linfeng (China) has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 18.2 °C and it receives 1,417 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is August (28.4 °C on average) and the coldest is January (7.7 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.

Linfeng averages 1 frost days, 74 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 168 rainy days per year.

Linfeng has warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.11 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 2 to 0 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 42.3 °C (on 18 August 2022) and the coldest -6.6 °C (on 11 February 1945).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

LinfengChongqing Municipality

coords: 29.89°, 107.22°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CfaHumid subtropicalWarmest monthAugustColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthMayDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

18.2°C

Average daily high

21.5°C

Average daily low

15.3°C

Annual rainfall

1,417mm

Sunshine / day

6.0h

Mean relative humidity

79%

Average peak wind

8.3km/h

Seasonal range

20.7°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

1 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

74 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

168 d/yr

Annual snowfall

1.8 cm

Average feels-like high

23.0 °C

Average feels-like low

16.2 °C

Average peak gust

20.9 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

119 d/yr

Solar radiation

11.6 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.0 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.28 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

42.3 °C

18 August 2022

Coldest day

-6.6 °C

11 February 1945

Wettest day

129 mm

17 August 1957

Windiest day

44.3 km/h

23 May 1946

Strongest gust

70.2 km/h

28 May 1946

Hottest feels-like

47.3 °C

25 July 1957

Coldest feels-like

-9.9 °C

11 February 1945

Snowiest day

8.1 cm

6 February 1972

Sunniest day

13.9 h

23 June 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	39.1 °C16 July 2025	0.9 °C27 January 2025	19.7 °C	1,299 mm	112	0
2024	40.3 °C27 August 2024	-0.1 °C16 December 2024	19.8 °C	1,235 mm	104	1
2023	37.6 °C9 August 2023	0.5 °C19 January 2023	19.0 °C	1,507 mm	87	0
2022	42.3 °C18 August 2022	0.8 °C19 December 2022	19.6 °C	1,035 mm	98	0
2021	39.9 °C3 August 2021	-0.7 °C12 January 2021	18.6 °C	1,535 mm	87	2
2020	38.6 °C29 August 2020	0.5 °C21 December 2020	18.5 °C	1,613 mm	74	0
2019	37.9 °C28 July 2019	2.8 °C22 January 2019	18.5 °C	1,263 mm	73	0
2018	39.3 °C20 July 2018	0.2 °C9 January 2018	18.7 °C	1,141 mm	89	0
2017	40.1 °C22 August 2017	1.6 °C21 December 2017	18.8 °C	1,182 mm	80	0
2016	41.9 °C24 August 2016	-2.0 °C25 January 2016	19.0 °C	1,213 mm	87	2
2015	36.3 °C3 August 2015	2.2 °C17 December 2015	18.9 °C	1,197 mm	76	0
2014	39.9 °C6 August 2014	0.7 °C1 January 2014	18.2 °C	1,523 mm	51	0
2013	40.3 °C23 August 2013	0.2 °C7 January 2013	19.2 °C	1,135 mm	107	0
2012	38.3 °C12 August 2012	-0.3 °C30 December 2012	17.8 °C	1,082 mm	67	2
2011	41.0 °C18 August 2011	-1.3 °C2 February 2011	18.2 °C	1,051 mm	93	2
2010	40.8 °C11 August 2010	-0.6 °C17 December 2010	18.3 °C	1,171 mm	77	1
2009	40.3 °C7 September 2009	1.1 °C27 January 2009	18.7 °C	1,172 mm	82	0
2008	36.3 °C27 July 2008	-0.4 °C15 February 2008	18.2 °C	1,175 mm	74	1
2007	36.2 °C8 August 2007	2.0 °C9 January 2007	18.6 °C	1,373 mm	82	0
2006	42.0 °C15 August 2006	1.3 °C27 January 2006	19.4 °C	1,065 mm	93	0
2005	36.9 °C1 July 2005	-1.8 °C2 January 2005	18.2 °C	1,434 mm	84	1
2004	40.5 °C11 August 2004	0.1 °C31 December 2004	18.3 °C	1,751 mm	72	0
2003	38.1 °C25 August 2003	2.1 °C7 January 2003	18.6 °C	1,318 mm	69	0
2002	37.4 °C13 July 2002	1.8 °C28 December 2002	18.7 °C	1,503 mm	73	0
2001	40.8 °C6 August 2001	1.0 °C22 December 2001	18.9 °C	1,153 mm	73	0
2000	37.4 °C27 July 2000	0.1 °C1 February 2000	18.1 °C	1,537 mm	74	0
1999	36.4 °C8 August 1999	-0.5 °C26 December 1999	18.5 °C	1,782 mm	73	1
1998	36.3 °C19 July 1998	1.2 °C20 January 1998	19.0 °C	1,793 mm	82	0
1997	40.3 °C31 August 1997	1.4 °C28 January 1997	18.4 °C	1,339 mm	77	0
1996	37.8 °C23 August 1996	0.3 °C22 February 1996	17.7 °C	1,851 mm	73	0
1995	39.5 °C7 September 1995	0.9 °C29 December 1995	18.2 °C	1,516 mm	75	0
1994	40.8 °C5 August 1994	0.7 °C25 January 1994	18.7 °C	1,363 mm	92	0
1993	36.5 °C13 July 1993	-0.3 °C27 January 1993	17.7 °C	1,550 mm	54	1
1992	41.0 °C11 August 1992	0.7 °C24 December 1992	17.9 °C	1,269 mm	76	0
1991	37.5 °C25 July 1991	-1.6 °C28 December 1991	18.0 °C	1,355 mm	73	1
1990	38.5 °C27 August 1990	2.5 °C1 February 1990	18.7 °C	1,317 mm	91	0
1989	38.3 °C22 July 1989	1.1 °C11 February 1989	17.7 °C	1,610 mm	61	0
1988	38.1 °C19 July 1988	2.5 °C4 March 1988	18.1 °C	1,392 mm	73	0
1987	35.3 °C23 May 1987	1.0 °C27 January 1987	18.3 °C	1,499 mm	55	0
1986	37.1 °C11 August 1986	1.1 °C2 March 1986	17.7 °C	1,487 mm	70	0
1985	37.2 °C4 August 1985	0.6 °C18 January 1985	18.0 °C	1,397 mm	77	0
1984	37.2 °C2 August 1984	0.1 °C9 January 1984	17.7 °C	1,524 mm	71	0
1983	35.6 °C25 July 1983	0.8 °C29 December 1983	18.1 °C	1,540 mm	52	0
1982	36.8 °C3 August 1982	-2.5 °C27 December 1982	17.5 °C	1,715 mm	55	2
1981	38.0 °C9 August 1981	0.5 °C23 December 1981	18.1 °C	1,139 mm	83	0
1980	37.4 °C28 July 1980	0.4 °C31 January 1980	18.1 °C	1,365 mm	53	0
1979	36.9 °C9 August 1979	0.3 °C29 December 1979	18.4 °C	1,524 mm	66	0
1978	39.4 °C3 September 1978	0.1 °C21 January 1978	18.7 °C	1,053 mm	88	0
1977	38.3 °C8 August 1977	-1.9 °C29 January 1977	18.0 °C	1,364 mm	72	4
1976	39.9 °C20 August 1976	1.1 °C27 December 1976	17.7 °C	1,357 mm	60	0
1975	41.0 °C10 September 1975	-2.9 °C16 December 1975	18.6 °C	1,312 mm	79	4
1974	37.3 °C30 July 1974	0.9 °C2 January 1974	17.9 °C	1,526 mm	58	0
1973	37.2 °C21 August 1973	1.9 °C31 December 1973	18.8 °C	1,486 mm	79	0
1972	39.1 °C26 August 1972	-2.7 °C8 February 1972	18.1 °C	1,552 mm	81	2
1971	39.8 °C2 September 1971	2.2 °C31 January 1971	18.4 °C	1,264 mm	74	0
1970	38.0 °C17 August 1970	0.5 °C6 January 1970	18.0 °C	1,612 mm	74	0
1969	36.9 °C28 July 1969	0.9 °C8 January 1969	18.4 °C	1,369 mm	79	0
1968	36.8 °C31 July 1968	1.2 °C7 February 1968	17.8 °C	1,589 mm	52	0
1967	38.8 °C30 August 1967	-0.2 °C12 January 1967	18.0 °C	1,630 mm	72	1
1966	35.1 °C15 August 1966	-2.0 °C29 December 1966	17.6 °C	1,371 mm	58	3
1965	33.4 °C29 July 1965	-2.1 °C20 December 1965	17.2 °C	1,581 mm	48	3
1964	38.4 °C20 July 1964	1.7 °C25 February 1964	18.5 °C	1,549 mm	73	0
1963	36.8 °C15 July 1963	-2.0 °C15 January 1963	18.9 °C	1,531 mm	83	5
1962	38.0 °C18 July 1962	-0.2 °C27 January 1962	18.2 °C	1,620 mm	77	1
1961	41.1 °C22 August 1961	0.1 °C16 January 1961	19.0 °C	1,406 mm	98	0
1960	38.5 °C30 August 1960	0.0 °C3 January 1960	18.5 °C	1,533 mm	78	0
1959	40.3 °C28 August 1959	0.6 °C13 January 1959	18.8 °C	1,033 mm	96	0
1958	36.8 °C26 July 1958	0.7 °C8 January 1958	18.4 °C	1,535 mm	76	0
1957	37.9 °C24 July 1957	-0.5 °C7 February 1957	18.1 °C	1,444 mm	56	1
1956	33.7 °C4 July 1956	-3.3 °C12 January 1956	17.5 °C	1,569 mm	70	8
1955	33.5 °C10 September 1955	-3.1 °C6 January 1955	17.7 °C	1,370 mm	63	4
1954	34.7 °C3 September 1954	-0.4 °C16 December 1954	17.7 °C	1,895 mm	65	2
1953	36.4 °C18 August 1953	-1.0 °C20 January 1953	18.6 °C	1,603 mm	75	1
1952	34.9 °C4 July 1952	0.1 °C8 January 1952	18.2 °C	1,734 mm	60	0
1951	34.2 °C6 September 1951	-3.9 °C14 January 1951	17.9 °C	1,383 mm	72	2
1950	33.4 °C23 July 1950	-0.4 °C17 December 1950	17.6 °C	1,855 mm	42	1
1949	34.6 °C15 September 1949	-1.4 °C9 January 1949	18.1 °C	1,421 mm	77	2
1948	33.6 °C17 August 1948	-2.1 °C10 February 1948	18.2 °C	1,502 mm	76	4
1947	33.3 °C25 July 1947	-2.2 °C20 December 1947	18.2 °C	1,332 mm	73	3
1946	37.0 °C19 August 1946	0.2 °C22 January 1946	18.4 °C	1,151 mm	84	0
1945	33.5 °C22 July 1945	-6.6 °C11 February 1945	17.0 °C	1,142 mm	51	13
1944	34.6 °C29 July 1944	-2.5 °C18 December 1944	17.6 °C	1,165 mm	88	5
1943	31.8 °C1 July 1943	-1.0 °C8 February 1943	17.8 °C	1,962 mm	35	2
1942	32.0 °C3 August 1942	0.1 °C8 January 1942	18.2 °C	1,340 mm	61	0
1941	34.2 °C11 July 1941	0.6 °C27 January 1941	17.9 °C	1,544 mm	52	0
1940	35.3 °C19 August 1940	-2.5 °C3 February 1940	17.7 °C	1,184 mm	75	7

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

23.3 °C

+1.8 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

112 d/yr

+38

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

-1

Annual rainfall

1299 mm

-119 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	11.9 °C	+1.7 °C	63 mm	+22 mm
Feb	12.1 °C	-0.2 °C	39 mm	-8 mm
Mar	17.3 °C	+0.1 °C	93 mm	-5 mm
Apr	25.3 °C	+3.0 °C	132 mm	-12 mm
May	28.2 °C	+2.4 °C	95 mm	-85 mm
Jun	29.4 °C	+1.0 °C	211 mm	+33 mm
Jul	34.9 °C	+2.9 °C	109 mm	-65 mm
Aug	35.1 °C	+2.6 °C	118 mm	-21 mm
Sep	30.1 °C	+2.3 °C	151 mm	+8 mm
Oct	24.3 °C	+2.6 °C	156 mm	+26 mm
Nov	17.1 °C	+0.4 °C	77 mm	-14 mm
Dec	13.5 °C	+1.9 °C	55 mm	+2 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

39.1 °C

16 Jul 2025

Coldest day

0.9 °C

27 Jan 2025

Wettest day

60.0 mm

11 Aug 2025

Windiest day

22.5 km/h

12 Apr 2025

Strongest gust

57.2 km/h

12 Apr 2025

Hottest feels-like

47.1 °C

5 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-2.0 °C

27 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

13.8 h

3 Jul 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Linfeng?

Linfeng has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.2 °C and it receives 1,417 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Linfeng?

The hottest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 18 August 2022, reaching 42.3 °C.

What is the coldest day in Linfeng?

The coldest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 11 February 1945, at -6.6 °C.

Does it snow in Linfeng?

Yes. Linfeng gets on average 1.8 cm of snow per year and has around 1 frost days.

Has the climate of Linfeng warmed?

Yes: Linfeng warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Linfeng?

The wettest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 17 August 1957, with 129 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Linfeng?

The windiest day measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 23 May 1946, with winds reaching 44.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Linfeng?

The warmest month in Linfeng is August (28.4 °C on average); the coldest is January (7.7 °C).

How much does it rain in Linfeng?

Linfeng receives on average 1,417 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 168 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Linfeng?

Linfeng gets on average 6.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,190 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Linfeng?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Linfeng between 1940 and 2025 was 6 February 1972, with 8.1 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Linfeng?

Yes: Linfeng has on average 119 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Linfeng?

In Linfeng, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 47.3 °C on 25 July 1957, and the lowest was -9.9 °C on 11 February 1945.

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