Shaoguan has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with short, mild, damp winters, rainy springs, long, hot, and humid summers, and relatively sunny autumns. Due to the city's location far inland, winters are significantly cooler than in the rest of the province, with a January average temperature of 10.2 °C (50.4 °F), and summer maxima are higher here, averaging 1.3 °C (2.3 °F) higher in July than in Guangzhou. Frosts may occur, but freezing temperatures are much rarer. Winter starts off dry and sunny but becomes cloudier as spring approaches. Spring is the cloudiest and wettest time of the year, with only 16% of the possible amount of sunshine in March
