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There are 5 solid months of winter by my estimation, 2 months of shoulder seasons and 5 months of summer.
May and September are the picks.
Sunshine hours total 2700, surpisingly higher than where I live now.
Not a bad climate - B- , but not a great one either.
To me, winter stops being winter when the average maximum temperature exceeds 10C / 50F.. so in Beijing winter is only 3 months while summer 6 months (at a stretch, 7 months)
B-. Much sunnier than I expected of China, which I've always thought of as being a very cloudy country. Winters very cold, but also dry and sunny. Summers hotter than I would like. Overall, though, not too bad.
B-. Much sunnier than I expected of China, which I've always thought of as being a very cloudy country. Winters very cold, but also dry and sunny. Summers hotter than I would like. Overall, though, not too bad.
Southern China is cloudy. Northern and (particularly) inland and northwestern China are not.
There are 5 solid months of winter by my estimation, 2 months of shoulder seasons and 5 months of summer.
May and September are the picks.
Sunshine hours total 2700, surpisingly higher than where I live now.
Not a bad climate - B- , but not a great one either.
People have a bias standard based on what they are used to. I'd say three solid months of winter, and three solid months of summer vs your five months. A temp over 50F is not Winter to me, and a temp in the 70's is more Spring than Summer (based on where I live). I'd give it a C- cause the winter is colder than where I live now.
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I rate Beijing weather a C.
I don’t like the precipitation pattern in this weather climate with the wet summer and very dry fall, winter, and spring. I prefer most of the precipitation to come down in spring, fall, and winter instead.
Winter also lasts too long (5 months from November to March), and with almost no snow despite getting cold because of the very low precipitation.
At least the annual sunshine in Beijing is pretty good with an average of 2,700 annual sunshine hours. Beijing is probably one of the sunniest Chinese cities. For example Shanghai and Hong Kong get about 1,900 average annual sunshine hours each. Chongqing and Chengdu both get only 1,000 sunshine hours each and that makes them some of the most cloudy major cities in the entire world…
I'd give where I live a C, and Bejing doesn't look like an improvement Winters look barely any better than where I am, just slightly shorter (March is non-wintry). It's nice that spring comes earlier but the summers look unpleasantly humid and relatively cloudy.
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