Yearly Weather for Siping, Jilin Province, China

Siping is located in the transition between plains and hilly terrain, with hills to the southeast and the Songliao Plain to the northwest. The city has a four-season, monsoon-influenced, humid continental climate. Winters are long (lasting from November to March), cold, and windy, but dry, due to the influence of the Siberian anticyclone, with a January mean temperature of -13.5ºC (7.7ºF). Spring and fall are somewhat short transitional periods, with some precipitation, but are usually dry and windy. Summers are hot and humid, with a prevailing southeasterly wind due to the East Asian monsoon; July averages 23.7ºC (74.7ºF). Snow is usually light during the winter, and annual rainfall is heavily concentrated from June to August. Sunny weather tends to dominate throughout the year, and the annual mean is 6.ºC (44.1ºF).