Longyan climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Longyan?

Longyan has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.5 °C and it receives 1,702 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 22 July 2003, reaching 37.2 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Longyan?

The coldest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 2 January 1962, at -5.5 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Longyan?

Almost never: Longyan sees virtually no snow, with about 5 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Longyan warmed?

Yes: Longyan warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Longyan?

The wettest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 15 July 2006, with 353 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Longyan?

The windiest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 13 August 2005, with winds reaching 29.2 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Longyan?

The warmest month in Longyan is July (25.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.1 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Longyan?

Longyan receives on average 1,702 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 175 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Longyan?

Longyan gets on average 7.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,738 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Longyan (China) has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 18.5 °C and it receives 1,702 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 July (25.3 °C on average) and the coldest is January (10.1 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.

Longyan averages 5 frost days, 51 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 175 rainy days per year.

Longyan has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.22 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 8 to 2 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 37.2 °C (on 22 July 2003) and the coldest -5.5 °C (on 2 January 1962).

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

LongyanFujian

coords: 25.07°, 117.02°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CfaHumid subtropicalWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthJuneDriest monthDecember

Mean daily temperature

18.5°C

Average daily high

23.1°C

Average daily low

14.9°C

Annual rainfall

1,702mm

Sunshine / day

7.5h

Mean relative humidity

80%

Average peak wind

9.3km/h

Seasonal range

15.2°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

5 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

51 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

175 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.3 cm

Average feels-like high

24.6 °C

Average feels-like low

15.7 °C

Average peak gust

30.9 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

114 d/yr

Solar radiation

14.2 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.9 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.69 · 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

37.2 °C

22 July 2003

Coldest day

-5.5 °C

2 January 1962

Wettest day

353 mm

15 July 2006

Windiest day

29.2 km/h

13 August 2005

Strongest gust

121.0 km/h

28 July 1969

Hottest feels-like

42.4 °C

4 August 2024

Coldest feels-like

-9.8 °C

2 January 1962

Snowiest day

4.7 cm

14 December 1975

Sunniest day

13.3 h

21 June 1946

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	34.4 °C4 July 2025	-1.6 °C12 January 2025	19.7 °C	1,618 mm	100	1
2024	35.6 °C24 July 2024	-1.3 °C24 January 2024	19.9 °C	2,158 mm	81	1
2023	36.4 °C30 May 2023	-2.1 °C29 January 2023	19.7 °C	1,562 mm	82	5
2022	36.6 °C23 August 2022	-0.1 °C19 December 2022	19.4 °C	2,067 mm	79	1
2021	34.1 °C27 July 2021	-2.8 °C12 January 2021	19.8 °C	1,371 mm	99	7
2020	35.5 °C14 July 2020	-1.0 °C30 January 2020	19.8 °C	1,352 mm	83	3
2019	36.4 °C28 August 2019	0.9 °C23 January 2019	20.0 °C	1,615 mm	89	0
2018	33.6 °C26 May 2018	-2.2 °C6 February 2018	19.4 °C	1,391 mm	79	7
2017	35.9 °C28 September 2017	1.8 °C20 December 2017	19.6 °C	1,572 mm	89	0
2016	34.2 °C8 July 2016	-3.5 °C25 January 2016	19.5 °C	2,371 mm	64	5
2015	35.4 °C6 August 2015	0.1 °C18 December 2015	19.6 °C	1,648 mm	69	0
2014	36.1 °C22 July 2014	-2.7 °C23 January 2014	19.1 °C	1,388 mm	85	3
2013	34.7 °C12 July 2013	-1.1 °C28 December 2013	19.0 °C	1,927 mm	66	3
2012	35.1 °C15 August 2012	-1.9 °C31 December 2012	19.0 °C	1,840 mm	55	2
2011	34.4 °C24 July 2011	-0.9 °C17 January 2011	18.6 °C	1,372 mm	73	2
2010	35.3 °C4 August 2010	-3.2 °C17 December 2010	18.8 °C	1,754 mm	69	6
2009	34.8 °C2 August 2009	-3.0 °C11 January 2009	19.2 °C	1,227 mm	73	6
2008	35.2 °C25 July 2008	0.1 °C2 January 2008	18.9 °C	1,624 mm	69	0
2007	34.8 °C28 July 2007	-1.1 °C29 January 2007	19.3 °C	1,563 mm	74	1
2006	35.6 °C13 August 2006	-0.6 °C7 January 2006	19.2 °C	2,436 mm	69	3
2005	35.5 °C17 July 2005	-2.2 °C1 January 2005	18.9 °C	1,799 mm	67	7
2004	34.2 °C9 August 2004	-2.3 °C31 December 2004	18.6 °C	1,294 mm	64	5
2003	37.2 °C22 July 2003	-0.5 °C28 January 2003	19.3 °C	1,369 mm	87	4
2002	34.4 °C5 July 2002	0.5 °C3 January 2002	19.1 °C	1,548 mm	57	0
2001	34.2 °C23 August 2001	-1.3 °C23 December 2001	19.0 °C	1,667 mm	61	5
2000	34.6 °C4 June 2000	-0.7 °C28 January 2000	19.0 °C	2,050 mm	63	2
1999	34.0 °C12 September 1999	-3.8 °C23 December 1999	19.0 °C	1,575 mm	62	5
1998	34.1 °C20 August 1998	2.3 °C25 January 1998	19.5 °C	1,856 mm	65	0
1997	32.6 °C31 July 1997	-0.4 °C10 January 1997	18.5 °C	2,354 mm	29	2
1996	34.5 °C25 July 1996	0.8 °C1 January 1996	18.6 °C	1,804 mm	69	0
1995	33.9 °C21 July 1995	-2.2 °C6 January 1995	18.2 °C	1,634 mm	53	7
1994	34.4 °C2 July 1994	-1.3 °C22 January 1994	18.8 °C	1,986 mm	46	4
1993	33.7 °C24 August 1993	-2.6 °C17 January 1993	18.2 °C	1,762 mm	46	9
1992	35.1 °C29 July 1992	-2.5 °C15 January 1992	18.0 °C	2,283 mm	47	4
1991	33.9 °C18 July 1991	-3.9 °C29 December 1991	18.9 °C	1,314 mm	67	2
1990	34.5 °C17 August 1990	-0.1 °C31 January 1990	18.7 °C	2,166 mm	53	1
1989	35.5 °C15 July 1989	-0.3 °C12 February 1989	18.4 °C	1,707 mm	40	1
1988	36.3 °C18 July 1988	-0.3 °C12 December 1988	18.3 °C	1,768 mm	50	2
1987	34.2 °C12 July 1987	-1.6 °C7 December 1987	18.8 °C	1,779 mm	43	4
1986	34.3 °C16 August 1986	-2.8 °C3 March 1986	18.2 °C	1,863 mm	59	10
1985	33.0 °C7 August 1985	-3.2 °C16 December 1985	18.2 °C	2,127 mm	45	6
1984	33.3 °C29 July 1984	-1.7 °C29 December 1984	17.8 °C	1,713 mm	40	9
1983	33.0 °C25 July 1983	-0.7 °C23 January 1983	18.2 °C	2,707 mm	58	2
1982	34.0 °C28 July 1982	-2.5 °C27 December 1982	18.4 °C	2,132 mm	46	7
1981	33.7 °C7 August 1981	-2.0 °C12 January 1981	18.5 °C	1,931 mm	45	3
1980	34.1 °C26 July 1980	-1.1 °C13 December 1980	18.5 °C	1,873 mm	56	5
1979	34.4 °C4 July 1979	-1.4 °C19 November 1979	18.4 °C	1,774 mm	53	3
1978	33.7 °C9 July 1978	-2.2 °C6 January 1978	18.5 °C	2,073 mm	59	8
1977	32.7 °C9 July 1977	-1.3 °C30 January 1977	18.6 °C	1,526 mm	45	5
1976	34.8 °C22 July 1976	-2.1 °C10 December 1976	17.9 °C	1,988 mm	45	6
1975	33.0 °C27 July 1975	-5.2 °C15 December 1975	18.3 °C	2,515 mm	38	15
1974	33.9 °C8 August 1974	-2.0 °C2 January 1974	18.4 °C	1,760 mm	50	13
1973	32.8 °C31 July 1973	-2.9 °C31 December 1973	18.4 °C	2,322 mm	32	10
1972	32.8 °C7 July 1972	-1.3 °C9 February 1972	18.4 °C	2,145 mm	41	4
1971	35.7 °C25 July 1971	-1.8 °C9 January 1971	18.1 °C	1,495 mm	54	9
1970	36.3 °C1 August 1970	-1.6 °C20 January 1970	18.3 °C	1,911 mm	60	7
1969	33.8 °C26 July 1969	-1.9 °C10 December 1969	18.3 °C	1,718 mm	71	7
1968	33.0 °C13 August 1968	-1.8 °C21 February 1968	18.3 °C	1,892 mm	44	3
1967	34.8 °C17 July 1967	-4.2 °C16 January 1967	18.1 °C	1,407 mm	56	22
1966	32.5 °C4 August 1966	-0.8 °C2 January 1966	18.0 °C	1,837 mm	19	2
1965	31.7 °C14 July 1965	-2.5 °C31 December 1965	17.2 °C	1,876 mm	7	6
1964	33.8 °C7 August 1964	-0.4 °C19 December 1964	18.6 °C	1,397 mm	51	1
1963	34.0 °C16 July 1963	-4.0 °C15 January 1963	18.3 °C	1,169 mm	69	16
1962	36.9 °C1 August 1962	-5.5 °C2 January 1962	18.0 °C	1,532 mm	66	12
1961	35.3 °C30 June 1961	-3.6 °C2 February 1961	18.5 °C	2,233 mm	44	8
1960	33.5 °C21 August 1960	-2.2 °C2 January 1960	18.6 °C	1,600 mm	47	5
1959	33.6 °C31 July 1959	-3.6 °C11 January 1959	18.5 °C	2,146 mm	39	8
1958	33.6 °C18 August 1958	-1.7 °C13 February 1958	18.3 °C	1,302 mm	47	6
1957	34.7 °C31 August 1957	-2.8 °C12 February 1957	18.2 °C	1,729 mm	54	8
1956	33.3 °C10 July 1956	-4.4 °C10 January 1956	17.8 °C	1,159 mm	43	11
1955	31.5 °C30 September 1955	-4.6 °C11 January 1955	17.7 °C	977 mm	19	13
1954	34.3 °C16 August 1954	-1.2 °C16 December 1954	18.3 °C	910 mm	38	5
1953	35.3 °C16 August 1953	-0.1 °C7 January 1953	18.6 °C	1,080 mm	47	1
1952	31.7 °C2 August 1952	-2.2 °C8 January 1952	18.4 °C	1,409 mm	13	6
1951	33.2 °C31 July 1951	-0.8 °C14 January 1951	17.8 °C	1,712 mm	14	4
1950	31.5 °C17 July 1950	-3.6 °C10 December 1950	17.9 °C	1,546 mm	16	4
1949	31.8 °C17 September 1949	-3.8 °C9 January 1949	18.6 °C	1,175 mm	14	7
1948	31.9 °C8 August 1948	-1.3 °C3 January 1948	18.3 °C	1,354 mm	23	6
1947	31.6 °C11 August 1947	-1.3 °C31 December 1947	17.3 °C	1,827 mm	10	5
1946	34.3 °C21 June 1946	-1.5 °C6 January 1946	18.3 °C	790 mm	47	8
1945	31.2 °C31 July 1945	-2.3 °C16 January 1945	16.7 °C	1,478 mm	6	9
1944	30.6 °C8 August 1944	-2.4 °C19 December 1944	17.6 °C	1,290 mm	7	9
1943	31.1 °C17 May 1943	-2.8 °C12 January 1943	17.7 °C	1,045 mm	6	9
1942	31.8 °C28 July 1942	-2.9 °C6 December 1942	17.5 °C	1,644 mm	17	14
1941	30.0 °C18 August 1941	-0.6 °C3 February 1941	17.5 °C	2,012 mm	1	1
1940	33.0 °C30 August 1940	-4.0 °C25 January 1940	17.0 °C	1,734 mm	9	10

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

24.9 °C

+1.8 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

100 d/yr

+49

Frost days (< 0 °C)

1 d/yr

-4

Annual rainfall

1618 mm

-84 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	17.6 °C	+2.4 °C	2 mm	-51 mm
Feb	16.8 °C	+0.7 °C	37 mm	-58 mm
Mar	21.1 °C	+1.9 °C	140 mm	-7 mm
Apr	24.4 °C	+1.6 °C	193 mm	-10 mm
May	26.4 °C	+0.7 °C	269 mm	+3 mm
Jun	30.2 °C	+2.6 °C	154 mm	-121 mm
Jul	30.5 °C	+0.6 °C	337 mm	+169 mm
Aug	30.8 °C	+1.1 °C	243 mm	+38 mm
Sep	30.4 °C	+2.1 °C	145 mm	+6 mm
Oct	28.4 °C	+3.2 °C	36 mm	-25 mm
Nov	21.9 °C	+0.7 °C	26 mm	-22 mm
Dec	20.0 °C	+3.1 °C	36 mm	-7 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

34.4 °C

4 Jul 2025

Coldest day

-1.6 °C

12 Jan 2025

Wettest day

93.2 mm

10 Jul 2025

Windiest day

25.7 km/h

14 Aug 2025

Strongest gust

100.8 km/h

14 Aug 2025

Hottest feels-like

39.4 °C

24 Aug 2025

Coldest feels-like

-5.6 °C

12 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

13.0 h

25 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Longyan?

Longyan has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 18.5 °C and it receives 1,702 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Longyan?

The hottest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 22 July 2003, reaching 37.2 °C.

What is the coldest day in Longyan?

The coldest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 2 January 1962, at -5.5 °C.

Does it snow in Longyan?

Almost never: Longyan sees virtually no snow, with about 5 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Longyan warmed?

Yes: Longyan warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Longyan?

The wettest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 15 July 2006, with 353 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Longyan?

The windiest day measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 13 August 2005, with winds reaching 29.2 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Longyan?

The warmest month in Longyan is July (25.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (10.1 °C).

How much does it rain in Longyan?

Longyan receives on average 1,702 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 175 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Longyan?

Longyan gets on average 7.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 2,738 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Longyan?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Longyan between 1940 and 2025 was 14 December 1975, with 4.7 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Longyan?

Yes: Longyan has on average 114 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Longyan?

In Longyan, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 42.4 °C on 4 August 2024, and the lowest was -9.8 °C on 2 January 1962.

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