About China Temp Rankings

China Temp Rankings is a weather data visualization project for comparing temperatures across China. The site organizes city-level public weather readings into national rankings, province maps, 7-day forecast views, and written notes that explain how to read the data.

Our Mission

We aim to make weather data across China accessible, visual, and easy to understand. The site is designed for readers who want to compare regions quickly, check city-level differences before a trip, or follow broad weather patterns without opening dozens of separate forecast pages.

Who Maintains This Site

The site is maintained as an independent data presentation project. Automated scripts collect public weather fields, while the generated pages add organization, bilingual labels, local context, travel notes, methodology notes, and clear limitations. Feedback is reviewed through the contact email below.

What We Offer

• Real-Time Temperature Rankings: See which provinces and cities are the hottest and coldest right now, updated every hour.
• 7-Day Forecasts: View temperature predictions for the upcoming week for every province and city.
• Interactive Maps: Explore temperature data through color-coded geographic maps powered by ECharts.
• Province & City Detail Pages: Drill down into specific regions for detailed city-level temperature breakdowns.
• Bilingual Support: Full English and Chinese (simplified) language support.
• Historical Data: Browse past temperature data organized by date.

What Makes the Pages Useful

Weather feeds can be hard to compare when each city is shown in isolation. China Temp Rankings adds value by grouping monitored cities by province, calculating regional extremes, preserving city tables, and adding notes about terrain, coastlines, elevation, humidity, wind, rain, and local travel considerations.

Our Data Sources

We aggregate temperature data from public weather pages and APIs, including monitored city forecasts from the National Meteorological Center of China. Our automated system collects data regularly and processes it to generate comprehensive temperature rankings and forecasts. The data includes current temperatures, daily highs and lows, wind speeds, and weather conditions.

We publish the data as a reference tool rather than as an official warning product. Each page is designed to help readers compare regions, understand local variation, and quickly find city-level conditions. More detail is available in our methodology and data sources pages.

How It Works

Our system operates on a fully automated pipeline:

1. Weather data is collected from public APIs for over 300 cities across all Chinese provinces.
2. Data is stored and processed in a time-series database (InfluxDB).
3. Static HTML pages are generated with the latest data and deployed to a global CDN.
4. Pages are regenerated regularly to ensure data freshness.

Technology

China Temp Rankings is built with performance and reliability in mind. We use static site generation for fast page loads, ECharts for interactive map visualizations, and Tailwind CSS for a clean, responsive design. The site is deployed on Cloudflare Pages for global CDN delivery and fast access worldwide.

Contact Us

We welcome feedback, suggestions, and inquiries. You can reach us at:

• Email: [email protected]

For bug reports or feature requests, we appreciate your feedback as it helps us improve the platform.

How the Content Is Produced

The words on this site come from three sources, and we state which is which. First, content computed directly from the data: rankings, maps, seven-day forecasts, the clothing, cold-risk, UV and exercise indices, year-to-date records and week-over-week comparisons are all calculated by code from the day’s readings using the rules published on the methodology page, with no human judgement involved. Second, short commentary generated from the data: the daily brief on the home and province pages, the monthly reviews and the holiday outlooks start from a set of facts extracted by code (hottest and coolest, rain distribution, seven-day trend) which a language model turns into prose under editorial writing rules that permit only the given numbers and places; each such piece is labelled as compiled automatically. Third, articles and guides written by editors: the feature articles are written and revised by our editors; city travel guides are compiled from public travel accounts and rewritten in our own words, signed by the Tempscape travel desk with an update date, and use no copied photographs.

Update Cadence and Corrections

City readings and forecasts refresh three times a day and pages are rebuilt daily; monthly reviews are written at the start of each month and holiday outlooks update daily from a month before the break. If you spot a wrong number, place name or statement, tell us through the contact page; errors that affect judgement or safety are handled first, and the principles are recorded in our editorial policy.