China Travel Forum

[marty]

we are going to Beijing on the 22nd July. I noticed the weather reports for this week show temperatures over 40 centigrade every day (and up to 45) and I am wondering if this is normal or is it unusual to be so hot every day. I know it is the hot season but how hot is hot?

[Aynur]

The climate in Beijing is of the continental type, with cold and dry winters, due to the Siberian air massses that move southward across the Mongolian Plateau. The summers are hot owing to warm and humid monsoon winds from the southeast bringing Beijing most of its annual precipitation. January is the coldest month and July is the warmest. Winter usually begins towards the end of October. The summer months, June to August, are wet and hot with about 40% of the annual precipitation.