Location of Shanxi Yearly Weather for Taiyuan
Location of Shanxi

Yearly Weather for Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Taiyuan experiences a semi-arid climate. Spring is dry, with frequent dust storms, followed by early summer heat waves. Summer tends to be warm to hot with most of the year's rainfall concentrated in July and August. Winter is long and cold, but dry and sunny. Because of the aridity, there tends be considerable diurnal variation in temperature, except during the summer. Conditions are much cooler than comparable-latitude cities, such as Shijiazhuang, due to the moderately high altitude.

Monthly mean temperatures range from -5.5 °C (22.1 °F) in January to 23.4 °C (74.1 °F) in July, for an annual mean of 10.0 °C (50.0 °F).

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