Abstract:Spatial distributions of Lemper Ziv complexity of temperature and precipitation time series are discussed.It shows that the complexities of temperature and precipitation variations are about 10~11, which are little than 13, the value of complete random symbol series. The 160-station averaged complexities of annual, seasonal and monthly mean temperature series are increased with the decreasing time scale, i.e., the complexity values of annual and monthly elements are the minimum and maximum of the three time scales.The mean complexity of monthly precipitation is little than that of seasonal and annual series. Spacially, the complexities of temperature and precipitation are larger in the west and north than in the east and south of China, and with the maximum values in the south east coastal areas.