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Chengdu weather

Sichuan · 20,937,757 inhabitants · Friday, October 30 · updated 02:49

Clear sky
14°
Clear sky
Feels like 14°C
Wind
1 km/h
Gusts
2 km/h
Humidity
80 %
Pressure
1022 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:16 Set 18:18 Day 11 h 1 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Night
Clear sky
Clear sky
15°14°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ ENE 3 km/h
Humidity 76 %
Morning
Clear sky
Clear sky
19°13°
Feels like 19°
Wind ↑ NE 7 km/h
Humidity 57 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
22°21°
Feels like 23°
Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h
Humidity 43 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
20°18°
Feels like 20°
Wind ↑ SSW 6 km/h
Humidity 60 %
08:00
Clear sky
13°
NE 5
11:00
Clear sky
19°
NE 7
14:00
Clear sky
21°
ENE 4
17:00
Mainly clear
22°
E 4
20:00
Partly cloudy
18°
NNE 5
23:00
Partly cloudy
20°
SSW 6
02:00
Overcast
16°
NNE 2
05:00
Overcast
19°
S 3

Chengdu forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.8° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
11°14°18°21°24°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed21°14°Thu 29 Oct: max 18° · min 14° · normal 14.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 22° · min 13° · normal 14.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 21° · min 15° · normal 14.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 19° · min 14° · normal 14.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 19° · min 14° · normal 14.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 18° · min 14° · normal 13.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 21° · min 14° · normal 13.7°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri12°18°24°22°13°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Chengdu climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 63% of the annual total; July by itself averages 305 mm.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 4 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 20 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in July and August; the typical peak is 31 °C in August.

From 14 h 08 min of daylight in late June to 10 h 09 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 20 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (21 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan9 °C4 °C17 mm
Feb13 °C6 °C19 mm
Mar17 °C10 °C30 mm
Apr23 °C15 °C53 mm
May26 °C19 °C75 mm
Jun29 °C22 °C142 mm
Jul30 °C23 °C305 mm
Aug31 °C23 °C291 mm
Sep26 °C20 °C140 mm
Oct21 °C15 °C52 mm
Nov16 °C11 °C26 mm
Dec11 °C5 °C14 mm
Whole year21 °C14 °C1,160 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 30.67° N, 104.07° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Chengdu: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.543µg/m³
PM1043µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Chengdu

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Chengdu, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Chengdu yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Chengdu

Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 18:43 Set 08:40
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon
Wed 11/11 3%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Shanghai); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Chengdu

Curious about the weather in Chengdu on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Chengdu weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Chengdu, Sichuan: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 14 °C (feels like 14 °C) and the wind blows at 1 km/h.

Expected range today: 13 °C to 22 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations