What is the temperature in Beijing in winter?

As of January 2020, the average winter temperature in Beijing is 2°C~11°C. , the coldest winter in Beijing reaches minus 22.8℃.

1. According to historical meteorological records: In 1951, Beijing had four consecutive days of minus 20°C weather, and it reached minus 22.8°C on January 13. Therefore, the coldest time in Beijing can reach minus 22.8℃, but this situation is not common.

2. In 2013, it reached minus 16.4°C. Experts from the Beijing Meteorological Observatory said that this was also the lowest temperature in Beijing in the past 10 years. At this time last winter, Beijing experienced a low temperature of minus 14.9°C, the lowest in the previous 10 years.

3. Beijing has a warm temperate semi-humid continental monsoon climate, with hot and rainy summers, cold and dry winters, and short spring and autumn.

4. The annual average temperature is 10-12 degrees Celsius. In winter in Beijing, the average temperature in January is -5-10 degrees Celsius. Generally, the coldest time in winter rarely drops below minus 10°C.

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Notes

1. Beijing’s climate is a typical north temperate zone semi-humid continental monsoon climate, with high temperatures and rainy summers and cold and dry winters. Spring and autumn are short. The frost-free period lasts 180 to 200 days throughout the year, and is shorter in the western mountainous areas.

2. The average rainfall in 2007 was 483.9 mm, making it one of the areas with the highest rainfall in North China. The seasonal distribution of precipitation is very uneven. 80% of the annual precipitation is concentrated in the three months of June, July and August in summer, with heavy rains in July and August.