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
9°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ NNE 4 km/h
Humidity 89 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ SSW 8 km/h
Gusts14 km/h
Humidity 55 %
💧 0.3 mm
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
8°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ NE 3 km/h
Humidity 89 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ SSW 7 km/h
Humidity 59 %
💧 0.1 mm
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
8°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ NE 4 km/h
Humidity 86 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ S 7 km/h
Humidity 54 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
8°
Feels like 8°
Wind↑ NNE 3 km/h
Humidity 83 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ S 7 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 54 %
Xichang forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +6.0° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Xichang climate: what a normal year looks like
The wet season is concentrated from June to August, which brings 52% of the annual total; July by itself averages 256 mm.
Freezing nights are typical in January only (0 °C on average).
The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 0 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 1,330 mm of rain — more than 69% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (17 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
11 °C
0 °C
29 mm
Feb
14 °C
2 °C
24 mm
Mar
17 °C
6 °C
38 mm
Apr
21 °C
10 °C
51 mm
May
23 °C
13 °C
106 mm
Jun
23 °C
16 °C
209 mm
Jul
23 °C
16 °C
256 mm
Aug
23 °C
16 °C
230 mm
Sep
21 °C
14 °C
171 mm
Oct
17 °C
10 °C
130 mm
Nov
15 °C
5 °C
53 mm
Dec
11 °C
1 °C
34 mm
Whole year
18 °C
9 °C
1,330 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 27.90° N, 102.26° 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 Xichang: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM109µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Xichang
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Xichang, 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 Xichang yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Xichang
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 18:59 Set 08:40
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 Xichang
Curious about the weather in Xichang on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Xichang weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Xichang, Sichuan: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 14 °C (feels like 14 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.
Expected range today: 13 °C to 23 °C and around 1 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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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