Average Annual Precipitation for China

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The tables below give yearly averages for rainfall plus snowfall at cities in China. Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets a year and for the normal amount of precipitation.

The calculation of days only includes the days when precipitation totalled at least one millimetre (0.04 inches). The annual amount of precipitation is an average of long-term historical weather data.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: North China, Northeast China, East China, South Central China, Southwest China and Northwest China.

North China

Average yearly precipitation
Days Place Province or Region Inches Millimetres
  46 Beijing Beijing 22.7   577
  50 Hailar Inner Mongolia 13.8   351
  – Hohhot Inner Mongolia 15.8   402
  – Shijiazhuang Hebei 20.8   528
  52 Taiyuan Shanxi 18.0   457
  68 Tianjin Tianjin 22.1   561

Northeast China

Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall
Days Place Province or Region Inches Millimetres
  – Changchun Jilin  22.8   578
  – Dalian Liaoning 24.9   632
  – Harbin Heilongjiang 20.5   521
  47 Qiqihar Heilongjiang 16.5   420
  62 Shenyang Liaoning 26.9   684

East China

Average amount of rain and snow a year
Days Place Province or Region Inches Millimetres
151 Fuzhou Fujian 53.0 1347
112 Ganzhou Jiangxi 56.0 1423
  – Hangzhou Zhejiang 54.2 1376
  – Hefei Anhui 38.4   975
  – Jinan Shandong 26.6   676
107 Nanchang Jiangxi 59.9 1521
116 Nanjing Jiangsu 40.8 1036
  – Ningbo Zhejiang 54.1 1374
  56 Qingdao Shandong 28.3   720
  94 Shanghai Shanghai 43.7 1111
  – Taipei Taiwan 67.5 1714
  – Xiamen Fujian 47.2 1199

South Central China

Average annual precipitation
Days Place Province or Region Inches Millimetres
  – Changsha Hunan 54.2 1377
110 Guangzhou Guangdong 66.2 1682
  – Guilin Guangxi 73.0 1854
103 Haikou Hainan Island 64.0 1625
103 Hong Kong Hong Kong 87.2 2215
135 Macau Macau 80.0 2031
105 Nanning Guangxi 52.0 1321
  89 Shantou Guangdong 60.3 1531
125 Wuhan Hubei 48.1 1222
  56 Zhengzhou Henan 25.4   645

Southwest China

Annual precipitation totals
Days Place Province or Region Inches Millimetres
  90 Chengdu Sichuan 36.3   921
158 Chongqing Chongqing 44.8 1138
  – Guiyang Guizhou 43.7 1109
  96 Kunming Yunnan 39.6 1007

Northwest China

Average yearly precipitation
Days Place Province or Region Inches Millimetres
  39 Altay Xinjiang   6.9   175
  19 Jiuquan Gansu   3.5     88
  12 Kashi Xinjiang   2.5     65
  47 Lanzhou Gansu 12.4   316
    5 Ruoqiang Xinjiang   1.0     25
  – Urumqi Xinjiang   9.3   236
  66 Xi'an Shaanxi 22.6   573
  – Xining Quinghai 14.5   368
  29 Yinchuan Ningxia   7.6   194
References

China Meteorological Administration and World Meteorological Organization. World Weather Information Service.

World Data Center for Meteorology. Climate of the World.

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