Xiamen has a monsoonal humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), characterised by long, hot and humid summers and short, mild and dry winters. The warmest month is July, at 27.8 °C (82.0 °F), and oddly, the coolest month is February, at 12.4 °C (54.3 °F). Spring, both by humidity and percentage of sunshine, is the dampest season but typhoons in late summer and early autumn can make the latter period wetter overall. Summer and autumn are marked by comparatively sunny conditions, while autumn is warm and dry. The annual rainfall is 1,350 millimetres (53 in). Frost is very rare, and the last snowfall in the city was in January 1893, when snow also fell at Guangzhou, Macau, in the inland parts of Hong Kong and in the hills of Taipei
