Climate averages 1991–2020
Changning weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Changning: daytime highs average 10.9°C and nights cool to about 6.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 33 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xunchang (24 km away). In January its highs average 9.5°C, 1.5°C cooler than Changning, with 34 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Changning ranks joint 198th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 592nd of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Changning is 5.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 13.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 37 mm to 36 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Changning climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.9°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 37 | 11.5 | 10.511 h |
| February | 13.6°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 36 | 10.6 | 11.211 h |
| March | 18.1°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 63 | 13.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.3°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 91 | 15.4 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 127 | 16.7 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 197 | 19.1 | 13.914 h |
| July | 31.4°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 228 | 20.4 | 13.814 h |
| August | 31.1°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 212 | 19.2 | 13.213 h |
| September | 26.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 140 | 16.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.4°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 95 | 18.2 | 11.512 h |
| November | 17.2°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 61 | 12.8 | 10.811 h |
| December | 12.1°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 41 | 12.0 | 10.410 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
January in nearby cities
- Xunchang in JanuaryChina · 24 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 4.6°C · 34 mm rain
- Nanxi in JanuaryChina · 30 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 5.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Yibin in JanuaryChina · 34 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 5.7°C · 24 mm rain
- Baixi in JanuaryChina · 39 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 5.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Gusong in JanuaryChina · 43 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 4.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Shuifu in JanuaryChina · 50 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 6.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Luzhou in JanuaryChina · 60 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 6.0°C · 25 mm rain
- Junlian in JanuaryChina · 60 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 5.2°C · 72 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 Changning) is explained once on the Changning year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.