The best time to visit Shanghai is spring and autumn. The city has a subtropical maritime monsoon climate- mild and moist, with four distinct seasons. It is characterized by a warm spring, hot summer, cool autumn and cold winter. Generally, the warm spring and cool autumn are the more comfortable seasons compared to summer and winter.
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| Shanghai's temperature is the highest in July and August. For ten days or so in these two months, the temperature can reach 35 degrees centigrade. |
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The coldest period is from the end of January to early February - usually during Chinese Spring Festival. This awfully cold period will last for about three days but it seldom snows.
From March to May, it is best seasons for traveling. But from mid-June to early July, there is 'Plum Rain Season'. It lasts for about a month commencing in early summer when the plums ripen along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. During this period, the average daily rainfall is 259mm. |
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From late August and through the first twenty days of September, typhoons can bring heavy rain in their wake.
In Shanghai's winter, sunrise is 6:49 and sunset 16:57. While in summer sunrise at 4:50, sunset at 19:01. |
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