10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Partly cloudy
2°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ NE 1 km/h
Humidity 58 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
7°
Feels like 5°
Wind↑ NW 10 km/h
Humidity 57 %
💧 0.1 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
3°
Feels like 3°
Wind↑ NNE 4 km/h
Humidity 69 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
9°
Feels like 9°
Wind↑ SE 4 km/h
Humidity 42 %
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
3°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ NNW 7 km/h
Humidity 63 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ SSE 3 km/h
Humidity 30 %
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
3°
Feels like 2°
Wind↑ NNW 7 km/h
Humidity 42 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
10°
Feels like 10°
Wind↑ SSE 5 km/h
Humidity 23 %
Xining forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +5.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Xining climate: what a normal year looks like
Nights typically freeze from October to April, the coldest averaging −16 °C in January.
Day and night differ most in January: −1 °C in the afternoon against −16 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.
The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 51% of the annual total; August by itself averages 112 mm.
A normal year brings roughly 650 mm of rain — less than 79% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 10 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (11 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
−1 °C
−16 °C
7 mm
Feb
3 °C
−11 °C
10 mm
Mar
8 °C
−6 °C
24 mm
Apr
13 °C
0 °C
42 mm
May
15 °C
4 °C
73 mm
Jun
20 °C
9 °C
91 mm
Jul
22 °C
11 °C
111 mm
Aug
21 °C
10 °C
112 mm
Sep
17 °C
7 °C
107 mm
Oct
11 °C
−1 °C
55 mm
Nov
6 °C
−8 °C
13 mm
Dec
0 °C
−15 °C
5 mm
Whole year
11 °C
−1 °C
650 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 36.63° N, 101.76° 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 Xining: pollution and pollen
5/6
Very poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.552µg/m³
PM10137µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Xining
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Xining, 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 Xining yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Xining
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 18:34 Set 09:09
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 Xining
Curious about the weather in Xining on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Xining weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Xining, Qinghai: 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 6 °C (feels like 6 °C) and the wind blows at 5 km/h.
Expected range today: -2 °C to 12 °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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