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Hangzhou in February

ok · worth considering

The year in Hangzhou

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  1. Hangzhou in January: ok
  2. Hangzhou in February: ok
  3. Hangzhou in March: sweet spot
  4. Hangzhou in April: sweet spot
  5. Hangzhou in May: sweet spot
  6. Hangzhou in June: ok
  7. Hangzhou in July: avoid
  8. Hangzhou in August: avoid
  9. Hangzhou in September: ok, busy
  10. Hangzhou in October: sweet spot, busy
  11. Hangzhou in November: ok, busy
  12. Hangzhou in December: ok
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February at Hangzhou is 12°C by day and 3°C at night, with 9 rainy days and about 5 hours of sun a day. 12C max, 9 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high12°C
Nightly low3°C
Feels like, afternoon9°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 86 mm
Humidity76%
Sunshine5.4 h/day
Daylight11.1 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the centre, by West Lake, 25 km from the airport (HGH): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

February: quiet. Busiest in August, September and November; quietest in January and February.

Public holidays in February

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Hangzhou in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 3°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 76%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and C and I plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Renminbi. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Hangzhou: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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