Quanzhou's Climate
Quanzhou is a historic port city on the Taiwan Strait in Fujian province, southeastern China, with a humid subtropical climate shaped by the monsoon and the sea. Summers (June–September) are hot and humid, usually 30–35°C, with frequent showers and thunderstorms and a typhoon season from July to September when storms make landfall. Winters (December–February) are far milder than in northern China, around 12–18°C by day and rarely bitter. Rain is heaviest in late spring and early summer, while autumn (October–November) is dry, sunny and the most pleasant time of year.