Climate averages 1991–2020
Dali Old Town weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Dali Old Town: daytime highs average 13.8°C and nights cool to about 5.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 44 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dali (13 km away). In January its highs average 14.5°C, 0.8°C warmer than Dali Old Town, with 25 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dali Old Town ranks joint 150th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 465th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Dali Old Town is 7.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 16.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 23 mm to 21 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
Dali Old Town climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 13.8°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 23 | 3.8 | 10.711 h |
| February | 16.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 21 | 4.1 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.5°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 27 | 5.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 38 | 6.5 | 12.713 h |
| May | 23.7°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 97 | 10.5 | 13.413 h |
| June | 23.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 163 | 19.0 | 13.714 h |
| July | 22.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 230 | 26.0 | 13.614 h |
| August | 22.7°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 242 | 26.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 21.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 183 | 22.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.6°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 92 | 13.3 | 11.612 h |
| November | 16.5°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 26 | 4.3 | 10.911 h |
| December | 14.1°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 13 | 2.6 | 10.611 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
- Dali in JanuaryChina · 13 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 5.2°C · 25 mm rain
- Jinniu in JanuaryChina · 43 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 8.4°C · 14 mm rain
- Xiangcheng in JanuaryChina · 47 kmHigh 14.9°C · Low 3.0°C · 20 mm rain
- Micheng in JanuaryChina · 51 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 4.7°C · 31 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in JanuaryChina · 61 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 3.5°C · 15 mm rain
- Baoshan (Yunnan), China in JanuaryChina · 119 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 4.8°C · 29 mm rain
- Lushui (approximate) in JanuaryChina · 131 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 10.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Lijiang in JanuaryChina · 131 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 0.3°C · 16 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 Dali Old Town) is explained once on the Dali Old Town year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.