Hong Kong Climate

Hong Kong Temperature

HK Climate — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:08:40 +0000

Hong Kong Temperature

It is important to know when is the best time to visit Hong Kong and so below we have the information about Hong Kong temperatures during the year broken down by months.

As you can see, the Hong Kong climate means that June through to September can be very hot months, and September through to January can be an ideal to time to consider visiting. It’s important that you look at Hong Kong rainfall too and shortly I’ll be adding this information so that you can plan what clothes to pack, equipment to help you if you are thinking about travelling to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong temperatures in degrees Celsius

Hong Kong climate graph in degrees Celsius

Hong Kong Climate Graph (deg C)

Hong Kong temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit

Hong Kong climate graph in degrees Fahrenheit

Hong Kong Climate Graph (deg F)

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Hong Kong Climate

HK Climate — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:49:42 +0000

It is essential to make sure that you plan your trip well and in time for the different seasons that Hong Kong has to offer. Hong Kong temperatures and climate mean that it is classed as sub-tropical, meaning that it can be temperate for almost half of the year. However, during the November and December months there can be a pleasant breeze, some sunshine and temperatures that are comfortable. Many people regard these two months as the best time to visit Hong Kong.

January and February can also been good times however, as it is more cloudy but with occasional cold fronts of weather, followed by drier northern winds. Temperatues can drop below 10 decrees C in the urban, built up areas. The lowest temperature on record for Hong Kong is still only 0 deg C so you will rarely see frosts, although these can occur at times on higher ground and also in the New Territories.

March and April can have spells of high humidity, although it can be pleasant too. The fog and drizzle can be troubleseom if you are travelling on high ground that is exposed to the southeast. Sometimes this can affect the air traffic and ferries due to this reduced visibility.

May through to august are generally hot times with high humidity and occasional showers and thunderstorms. These tend to occur mostly in the mornings. In the afternoon the temperature can reach 31 degress C or above, with the night times only dipping to around 26 degrees C. July can see some fine dry spells for up to a couple of weeks.

Generally July through to September are most common for tropical cyclones in Hong Kong, although gales can occur occasionally between May and November. On average, there tend to be around 31 tropical cyclones each year. These originate from the western North Pacific or China Seas and around half reach typoon strength with winds peaking at 118KPH.

The peak travel season is from September through to Christmas time.

Just before a tropical cyclone when it is around 700 – 1000 KM southeast of Hong Kong, the weather tends to be fine but hot. Isolated thunderstorms can appear in the evenings, but the winds will increase along with heavy, widespread rain when the centre of the cyclone comes close. This heavy rain can last for several days and you should be careful of landslips and flooding during these times due to flooding, which can be more dangerous than any damage caused by winds.

Hong Kong’s rainfall per year ranges from around 1300 millimetres at Waglan Island to more than 3000 millimetres in Tai Mo Shan. Most of this rainfall occurs during May and September. The wettest month in Hong Kong is August when it can rain for 4 days in a week and the monthly rainfall can average 391.4 millimetres. The driest month in Hong Kong is January when the average can be just 23.4 millimetres with just 6 days of rain in a week.

The most severe weather in Hong Kong includes tropical cyclones, strong winter monsoon winds, thunderstorms, waterspouts and hailstorms. Snow and tornadoes are very rare for Hong Kong.

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Chinese New Year Celebrations in Hong Kong

HK Climate — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:39:32 +0000

February the 3rd, 2011 is the start of the Chinese New Year celebrations across the world and it welcomes in the year of the Rabbit. These celebrations usually continue for a matter of days – often about 5 days – although it depends where you are in the world. Next year you should consider going to Hong Kong (or even China) to join in the genuine article. Chinese New Year in 2012 lands on January 23rd 2012 and welcomes in the year of the Dragon!

Traditions in the Western world are often very similar and the local Chinese communities still celebrate their new year. Often Chinese restaurants put on a special set meal and team this up with fantastic firecrackers as well as the traditional lion dance with drum!

Here’s a great picture of a dragon dance taking place in a restaurant. The diners are still at their tables while the team of dragon dancers have people banging a drum, hitting symbols and the two actors inside the dragon dance elaborately around the restaurant floor!

Chinese New Year Dragon Dance

Chinese Dragon at New Year Celebrations

If you have children with sensitive ears, then perhaps they won’t be suited to this, otherwise, it’s such a fantastic evening and highly recommended. You might even enjoy some Chinese Elvis songs if you’re really lucky!

Chinese Elvis

Naturally the Chinese New Year celebrations in Hong Kong are MUCH more elaborate! You will have to be prepared to book well in advance though to ensure that prices are reasonable for accommodation and restaurants. This date in the Chinese calendar is one of the biggest so make sure you don’t miss out in 2012!

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC- Index- Volume 156- July-December 1979 (Paperback)

HK Climate — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:17:08 +0000

Here's yet another great box set from Amazon. This time it's the National Geographic from July to December 1979. If you know someone born during this time, then this would make a terrific birthday or Christmas present. Nature and wildlife lovers will adore flipping through the pages and being amazed at the quality of photography and articles available. These sets are usually quite expensive, so I think this is a great deal. And just in time for this Christmas!

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC- Index- Volume 156- July-December 1979 (Paperback) By GILBERT (EDITOR) GROSVENOR

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Hong Kong 97, a memoir of corruption (Kindle Edition)

HK Climate — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:53:33 +0000

As Amazon says, you can start reading this book, Hong Kong 97, a memoir of corruption on your Kindle in under a minute! Sounds amazing doesn't it? If you don't have a Kindle, then grab one now. In the UK they start at just £109! Look how unbelievably cheap these books are once you have a Kindle - just $2.99 for Hong Kong 97. You save trees, you don't have to carry around a heavy book. You can even carry around more than one book if you wanted on your Kindle - so you only need space for the slim Kindle in order to read your favourite Hong Kong books!

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Honor and Glory (DVD)

HK Climate — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:47:37 +0000

If anybody other than Godfrey Ho had directed this movie, my rating would have been lower. For those of you who don't know, director Ho is the Hong Kong equivalent of Ed Wood - a ceaselessly optimistic man whose dozens of martial arts features are regularly regarded as among the weirdest and most inept ever made. Knowing this, I went into "Honor and Glory" expecting mediocrity, but when the film proved itself to be more than a two-bit piece of garbage, I began to pay closer attention and began enjoying myself. Make no mistake, you can easily do a lot better than this on a slow Saturday night, and don't even bother checking this out if you're a cinema snob, but if you've seen enough decent movies of heroine Cynthia Rothrock, then watching this one for the sake of weirdness should make for a fun 87 minutes. Honor & Glory was a prime-time HBO Feature; and Entertainment Weekly gave us a B-. Martial arts movies were, and still are, a major part of my life. As a kid, I always looked foreward to the latest Van Damme or Lundgren flick, even Lorenzo Lamas or Don "the Dragon" Wilson, but none looked better to the eyes of a teenage boy than Cynthia Rothrock. Her best movies were made in Hong Kong in the 80's, but we gwiallo's didn't get to see them until much later. So we based her legacy on her direct-to-video American chopsocky titles, many of which were fine martial arts films, but to many were like Honor and Glory, perhaps her worst "authorized" film.

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Hong Kong 97, a memoir of corruption (Kindle Edition)

HK Climate — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:51:47 +0000

This sounds like a fantastic book, definitely going in someone's Christmas stocking this year! Hmm, maybe even my own! Corruption pays. As an executive with an American publishing firm in Hong Kong during the late nineties Jake Stratton had it easy. His superiors were far away in New York, the local distributor colluded with him to embezzle funds, and he spent his idle days drinking and womanizing. Then came the joint venture, and Stratton found himself with a fierce new boss, and racing to stay out of prison. Hong Kong 97 explores the city's dark underside of sex, drugs, and corruption in the years immediately following the handover to China.

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The Trail to Buddha’s Mirror (Neal Carey Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

HK Climate — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:54:32 +0000

This book has lots and lots of reviews. Read what everyone's saying below: From Publishers Weekly What begins as a routine missing person's case becomes a complex web of deceit, danger and international intrigue in this superb mystery. On sabbatical from duties as an operative for a group known as Friends of the Family, Neal Carey, last seen in A Cool Breeze on the Underground , is visited in Yorkshire by his mentor and asked to find a brilliant, albeit lovesick scientist and convince him to get back to work. Robert Pendleton, a biochemist and fertilizer expert for AgriTech corporation, has gone missing from a conference in San Francisco where he reportedly became smitten with a beautiful Chinese woman. After locating Pendleton and meeting the stunning Li Lan--and nearly being killed by an unknown assailant when the pair flee from him--Carey soon realizes that more than mere fertilizer know-how is at stake. The trail qui c kly takes him all the way to China where life-and-death political issues, vivid local color and absorbing historical detail enhance the chase and reinforce suspense as the story reaches its surprising resolution. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Neal Carey's ( A Cool Breeze on the Underground , LJ 2/1/91) new mission takes him to San Francisco, Hong Kong, and China. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Kirkus Reviews Neal Carey, the Smollett-loving specialist in finding people who don't want to be found (A Cool Breeze on the Underground, 1990), is hustled off to San Francisco to drag AWOL pesticide expert Robert Pendleton away from china doll Li Lan and back to paternal corporation AgriTech. But the fireworks that erupt after Neal's found the happy couple make him wonder whether gorgeous, talented painter Li Lan isn't actually a Communist agent who's trying to woo Pendleton back to her country; by the time Neal has been taken prisoner in the Walled City of Hong Kong, he's already gotten the Communists, the CIA, and AgriTech ready to burn him. And more trouble lies ahead, as shadowy patriarch Xao Xiyang and his treacherous underling Peng plot against each other to manipulate Neal into exposing Pendleton and Li Lan in a climax that still has room for a surprise or two. Despite Neal's inveterate habit of wising off in his mind's mouth, this is a sturdy two evenings' worth of entertainment. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review ''What begins as a routine missing persons case becomes a complex web of deceit, danger, and international intrigue in this superb mystery. . . Vivid local color and absorbing historical detail enhance the chase and reinforce suspense as the story reaches its surprising resolution.'' --Publishers Weekly Praise for Don Winslow: ''Winslow is the real deal.'' --James Ellroy --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Product Description When chemical genius Robert Pendleton disappears from a conference with all of his research on a new fertilizer, grad student-turned-P.I. Neal Carey follows a dark trail into the heart of China. Reprint. PW. " About the Author DON WINSLOW is the author of thirteen books and has also written for film and television. On his way to becoming a writer, he did a number of things to make a living--private investigator, safari guide, actor, and theater director, among others. His first novel, A Cool Breeze on the Underground, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and California Fire and Life received the Shamus Award. He now lives in Southern California. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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Yes, Madam! (DVD)

HK Climate — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:56:50 +0000

This is a great action film (with some comic interludes) about a pair of policewomen on the trail of a gang of counterfeiters. In her 1987 film debut, the future Bond girl Michelle Yeoh (the Bond movie was Tomorrow Never Dies) is teamed with American karate champion and action queen Cynthia Rothrock, and the acrobatic fights are staged for maximum floor-slamming impact. The plot is little bit like Rush Hour in reverse: Rothrock is an American policewoman working in Hong Kong, flabbergasting the locals with her Chinese language skills and rubber-limbed high kicks (when a thug grabs her from behind, she kicks him in the face). Director Corey Yuen (who staged the fight sequences in Lethal Weapon 4) delivers the action in fast, hard bursts, with stunt work that rivals the eye-popping best of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. Visiting directors Tsui Hark (Peking Opera Blues) and Hung himself have tiny cameo roles, as money-mad dupes of the Sinotrash bad guys. --David Chute

Yes, Madam! (DVD) By Michelle Yeoh

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Protégé (DVD)

HK Climate — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:36:37 +0000

Nothing's better than a good Cantonese-based film! This one has Hong Kong legend Andy Lau (he played in House of Flying Daggers) and Daniel Wu (he played in Legend of the Black Scorpion) starrig to make this a stunningly gritty and intense thriller. It's inspired by a true story and has been nominated for 9 Hong Kong Film Awards! Those inlclude 'Best Picture' and 'Best Action Choreography'. Protégé is a story about a young policeman infiltrating the deepest levels of a secret drug ring. He survives 7 years of violence and tension as he works his way from being a dealer to heir apparent. Every step he achieves consolidates his power and reveals yet another piece of his boss's operations and brings him closer to destroying a brutal heroin empire...or inheriting it.

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