Climate averages 1991–2020
Dazhou weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Dazhou: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 3.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 22 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Liangping (68 km away). In January its highs average 9.6°C, 0.6°C cooler than Dazhou, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dazhou ranks joint 231st of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 612th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Dazhou is 4.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 12.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 mm to 46 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
Dazhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.3°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 40 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.6°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 46 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.9°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 83 | 11.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 122 | 13.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.6°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 167 | 14.1 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 187 | 13.7 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.3°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 218 | 16.4 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.6°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 158 | 13.6 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 177 | 13.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 137 | 14.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 85 | 10.8 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 46 | 9.5 | 10.210 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
- Liangping in JanuaryChina · 68 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 4.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Linjiang in JanuaryChina · 73 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 5.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Hanfeng in JanuaryChina · 90 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Guixi in JanuaryChina · 98 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 38 mm rain
- Bazhong in JanuaryChina · 100 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 2.0°C · 30 mm rain
- Wanzhou in JanuaryChina · 102 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 5.5°C · 43 mm rain
- Guang’an in JanuaryChina · 114 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.7°C · 35 mm rain
- Nanchong in JanuaryChina · 139 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 25 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 Dazhou) is explained once on the Dazhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.