Climate averages 1991–2020
Changde weather
in April.
A warm, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Changde: daytime highs average 22.1°C and nights cool to about 13.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 150 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes April a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 51 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinshi (66 km away). In April its highs average 22.0°C, about as warm as Changde, with 154 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Changde ranks joint 325th of 884 for the warmest April highs and 737th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Changde is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 150 mm to 181 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Changde climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 67 | 9.9 | 10.511 h |
| February | 11.8°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 79 | 11.0 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.3°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 132 | 14.8 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 22.1°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 150 | 14.5 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.5°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 181 | 14.5 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 236 | 15.8 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.1°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 226 | 15.2 | 13.814 h |
| August | 31.6°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 140 | 14.4 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.9°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 86 | 9.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.8°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 76 | 8.7 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.1°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 71 | 8.7 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.5°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 40 | 7.0 | 10.310 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Jinshi in AprilChina · 66 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.4°C · 154 mm rain
- Heshan in AprilChina · 82 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.8°C · 183 mm rain
- Xiulin in AprilChina · 102 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 13.6°C · 170 mm rain
- Zhangjiajie in AprilChina · 119 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 13.8°C · 220 mm rain
- Yueyang in AprilChina · 141 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.1°C · 211 mm rain
- Zhicheng in AprilChina · 142 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Loudi in AprilChina · 147 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.5°C · 183 mm rain
- Shaoshan in AprilChina · 148 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 13.8°C · 185 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Changde) is explained once on the Changde year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.