10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
21°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ ENE 30 km/h
Gusts38 km/h
Humidity 72 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
24°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ ENE 35 km/h
Humidity 66 %
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
22°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ ENE 35 km/h
Gusts44 km/h
Humidity 74 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
24°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ ENE 33 km/h
Humidity 69 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ ENE 30 km/h
Gusts39 km/h
Humidity 76 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
25°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ ENE 24 km/h
Humidity 69 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
23°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ NE 30 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 83 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
24°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ E 26 km/h
Humidity 72 %
Shantou forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Shantou climate: what a normal year looks like
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to September; the typical peak is 32 °C in July.
A normal year brings roughly 1,520 mm of rain — more than 76% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 12 °C.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 27 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (28 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
18 °C
12 °C
32 mm
Feb
19 °C
13 °C
47 mm
Mar
22 °C
16 °C
70 mm
Apr
25 °C
19 °C
113 mm
May
28 °C
23 °C
196 mm
Jun
30 °C
26 °C
265 mm
Jul
32 °C
27 °C
220 mm
Aug
31 °C
26 °C
277 mm
Sep
31 °C
25 °C
162 mm
Oct
28 °C
22 °C
50 mm
Nov
25 °C
19 °C
52 mm
Dec
20 °C
14 °C
40 mm
Whole year
26 °C
20 °C
1,520 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 23.35° N, 116.68° 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 Shantou: pollution and pollen
2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.515µg/m³
PM1021µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Shantou
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Shantou, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Shantou yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Shantou
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 18:10 Set 07:28
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Asia/Shanghai); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Shantou
Curious about the weather in Shantou on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Shantou weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Shantou, Guangdong: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 24 °C (feels like 32 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.
Expected range today: 23 °C to 27 °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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