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Weather extremes

How extreme does Yinchuan's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Yinchuan has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 50+ years of daily weather observations (1971–present), from the Yinchuan station 6 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Yinchuan has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day
102°F Jul 20, 2000

That is about 15°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Yinchuan (typical high near 87°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 102°F Jul 20, 2000
2 102°F Jul 14, 2021
3 102°F Jul 15, 2021
❄️ Coldest night
-18°F Jan 29, 1971

About 28°F colder than a normal January night in Yinchuan (typical low near 10°F).

The three most extreme on record

1 -18°F Jan 29, 1971
2 -16°F Jan 22, 1971
3 -15°F Jan 15, 1989
🌧️ Most rain in one day
4.46 in Jul 30, 2012

More rain in a single day than Yinchuan usually gets in the whole month of July (typical July total about 1.6 in).

The three most extreme on record

1 4.46 in Jul 30, 2012
2 3.43 in Jul 15, 2006
3 3.15 in Jan 26, 2025

How hot and cold it gets, month by month

The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.

-30°-10°10°30°50°70°90°110°130° all-time high 102°F JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
normal range of daily temperatureshottest ever recordedcoldest ever recorded

Yinchuan's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 102°F is about 15°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.

In plain terms

In a normal year, Yinchuan's warmest days reach the high 80s°F and its coldest nights drop to the low 10s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 102°F and as low as −18°F. A single day has delivered over 4 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.
Methodology & sources

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Yinchuan, a weather station, about 6 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →