Zhangjiajie National Forest Park

China

A surreal forest of misty, pillar-like sandstone peaks that inspired the floating mountains of Avatar.

Warmest month is July at 33°C on average. Coolest is January at 9°C. Driest reading falls in December with 6 rain days.

Six lead datapoints

MonthAvg highSwingRain days
January9°±6°8
February11°±7°10
March17°±8°13
April23°±7°15
May26°±6°14
June29°±5°17
July33°±4°15
August33°±5°14
September29°±7°10
October22°±7°10
November17°±7°9
December11°±5°6

What to do

  • Ride the Bailong Elevator up the cliff face
  • Brave the sheer glass skywalk on Tianmen Mountain
  • Hike the gentle Golden Whip Stream canyon

How we know this

Values are the average of the last ten calendar years of daily readings from Visual Crossing, snapped to the destination cluster. Swing is the p10 to p90 range of daily highs, halved for the ± figure. Rain days count any day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.