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Kunming in December

okbusy · worth considering

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  12. Kunming in December: ok, busy
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December at Kunming is 15°C by day and 4°C at night, with 4 rainy days and about 7 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high15°C
Nightly low4°C
Feels like, afternoon12°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more4 · 29 mm
Humidity76%
Sunshine7.5 h/day
Daylight10.6 h/day
Crowds59 / 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 Green Lake, the centre, 24 km from the airport (KMG): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: busier than usual. About as busy all year round.

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average 4°C.
  • 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 Kunming: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

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