Yulin weather by month & the best time to visit

🇨🇳 China · alpine / mountain city · hot-summer continental climate

The best time to visit Yulin is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 90/100), with June and September close behind. Yulin averages about 2,926 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 24°C / 75°F and roughly 34 mm of rain in May.

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Sun hours / year

2,926

Sunniest month

May

Peak score

90/100

Rain / year

453 mm

Snow / year

≈30 cm

Midday UV at peak

8 (very high)

Population

1.1M

Elevation

1,182 m

When is the best time to visit Yulin?

For sunshine, the best time to visit Yulin is May, then June and September. The dullest month is January (0/100, 3 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.

How sunny is Yulin?

Yulin gets a lot of sun: around 2,926 hours a year. 90 Sunshine Score points separate May (90) from January (0), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #49 of 254 destinations in China for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,110 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 63% of the year's 453 mm falls in the three months around August.

Sunshine Score by month

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Nearby places for sunshine

• Ordos China · 128 km · best in May · 3,002 h sun/yr
• Lüliang China · 155 km · best in May · 2,498 h sun/yr
• Yan'an (Baota) China · 209 km · best in May · 2,402 h sun/yr
• Baotou China · 247 km · best in May · 3,170 h sun/yr
• Taiyuan China · 275 km · best in Apr · 2,404 h sun/yr
• Yinchuan China · 279 km · best in Apr · 3,046 h sun/yr

Head-to-head

How Yulin compares month by month: Yulin vs Lüliang · Yulin vs Baotou · Yulin vs Ordos · Yulin vs Yinchuan · all comparisons