Best time to visit Xiamen
China · East Asia
All twelve months scored on daily temperature, rainfall, humidity and holiday crowding.
The year in Xiamen
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- JanJXiamen in January: good, busy
- FebFXiamen in February: sweet spot
- MarMXiamen in March: ok, busy
- AprAXiamen in April: sweet spot
- MayMXiamen in May: good
- JunJXiamen in June: sweet spot
- JulJXiamen in July: ok
- AugAXiamen in August: ok
- SepSXiamen in September: sweet spot
- OctOXiamen in October: sweet spot, busy
- NovNXiamen in November: sweet spot
- DecDXiamen in December: sweet spot
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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| Month | Max °C | Rain days | Humidity | Sun h/day | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 19° | 4d | 67% | 8.3h | goodbusy | busier than usual |
| Feb | 19° | 6d | 72% | 8.0h | sweet spot | 19C max, 6 rainy days |
| Mar | 22° | 10d | 75% | 8.2h | okbusy | busier than usual |
| Apr | 25° | 7d | 76% | 8.8h | sweet spot | 25C max, 7 rainy days |
| May | 28° | 10d | 78% | 8.5h | good | 28C max, 10 rainy days |
| Jun | 30° | 11d | 83% | 8.6h | sweet spot | 30C max, 11 rainy days |
| Jul | 33° | 6d | 77% | 10.8h | ok | 33C max, 6 rainy days |
| Aug | 32° | 10d | 81% | 10.1h | ok | 32C max, 10 rainy days |
| Sep | 32° | 5d | 74% | 10.4h | sweet spot | 32C max, 5 rainy days |
| Oct | 30° | 1d | 63% | 9.1h | sweet spot busy | holidays: CN: National Day; CN: National Day (observed) |
| Nov | 26° | 4d | 65% | 8.3h | sweet spot | 26C max, 4 rainy days |
| Dec | 21° | 3d | 64% | 8.3h | sweet spot | 21C max, 3 rainy days |
Rain days are the days with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts them.
Weather read at Zhongshan Road and Gulangyu, 8 km from the airport (XMN): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
A busy month is a crowded one, not a bad one — usually it is crowded because the weather is good. It is flagged rather than scored down, and crowds alone never make a month “avoid”: that is reserved for weather worth skipping.
How busy it gets
Then and now
Xiamen's September days now average 32.0°C, 3.3°C warmer than in 1981–1990. 12 of 12 months are clearly warmer.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981–90 | 16.6° | 16.1° | 18.7° | 22.3° | 25.4° | 28.2° | 30.6° | 30.7° | 28.7° | 27.2° | 23.0° | 18.5° |
| 2017–26 | 19.1° | 19.2° | 21.8° | 25.4° | 28.3° | 30.4° | 33.2° | 32.2° | 32.0° | 29.9° | 25.7° | 20.9° |
| Change | +2.5° | +3.0° | +3.1° | +3.2° | +2.9° | +2.2° | +2.5° | +1.6° | +3.3° | +2.7° | +2.6° | +2.3° |
The average daily high, month by month, for the nearest ERA5 grid cell. Bold is a clear change; grey is within the ordinary spread between years. Every destination, ranked.
Getting there
How far Xiamen is, and what it costs, depends on where you set off from — the months above do not.
- from Taipei
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- from Manila
- from Seoul
- from Ho Chi Minh City
- from Bangkok
- from Tokyo
- from Kuala Lumpur
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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. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
Being there
On arrival
- Paying — Most payments are made by phone with Alipay or WeChat Pay: link a Visa, Mastercard or other foreign card to either app, then scan the shop's QR code. Many hotels and larger shops take foreign cards, but many places do not, so carry some yuan in case the apps fail you.
- UPI, for visitors from India — Not accepted for paying here; bring a card that works abroad.
- Tipping — Not expected in most restaurants and hotels, or in taxis; bars and cafeterias in hotels, and some other restaurants and bars, may add a 10-15% service charge.
Getting around Xiamen
- Apps — Rides: DiDi, Amap. Maps: Amap, Baidu Maps, Apple Maps. Messages: WeChat. Google and WhatsApp are blocked in mainland China, as are Facebook, YouTube and X; WeChat, Alipay and DiDi all work in English.
Local public transit is easiest to pay for with the Xiamen public transit mini-app on Alipay or WeChat. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Xiamen, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Help
- Emergency — police 110 · ambulance 120 · fire 119. Traffic police are on 122.
TravelCharika is not an emergency service: we cannot call for help or send anyone. Numbers can change; if one fails, ask someone local or your hotel.
Your embassy — : how to reach your embassy or consulate abroad. A guess from your city, : a city is not a passport.
Put together by hand from the sources listed, checked 7 October 2026. Apps, cards and rules change, so check before you rely on one.
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Xiamen in pictures
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Slyronit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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What Xiamen is like
Xiamen (厦门; Ē-mn̂g in Minnan, Xiàmén in Mandarin, former English name: Amoy) is a coastal city in Fujian Province in China. It is a very vibrant, affluent and modern place, though by Chinese standards it is a small city — only 5.1 million counting suburbs (2020). More on Wikivoyage
- Worth doing
- Xiamen is host to many influential trade shows. A majority of the Xiamen exhibitions are located at the Xiamen International Conference & Exhibition Center (XICEC). More on Wikivoyage
- Getting in
- Xiamen has a major airport and good road and rail connections; it is easily reached from anywhere in China and many places beyond. More on Wikivoyage
From the Wikivoyage article on Xiamen, written by travellers and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the full article has far more. The numbers above are measured; this is experience.
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