Best time to visit Guangzhou

Guangzhou is a city of two halves. December scores 91 and August scores 38 — a 53-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. 4 of the twelve months sit within ten points of the best, so there is more than one right answer.

August is the warmest month at 31.8 °C and January the coolest at 20.5 °C — a 11.3 °C spread across the year. 152 days a year top 30 °C, more than a third of the calendar, so heat is the baseline here rather than a season.

There is a real wet season here. May to August carry the rain — up to 23 wet days in a month — while January, February, October, November and December drop as low as 5. That 18-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Guangzhou, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight runs from 10.7 hours in winter to 13.5 in summer, enough to notice on a sightseeing itinerary.

The three strongest months are December, January, February. The one to think twice about is August. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Guangzhou month by month