Climate averages 1991–2020
Dongtai weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the joint 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Dongtai: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 02 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dazhong (41 km away). In December its highs average 9.1°C, 0.5°C cooler than Dongtai, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dongtai ranks joint 429th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 600th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Dongtai is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 7.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 35 mm to 44 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Dongtai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 44 | 6.5 | 10.210 h |
| February | 9.6°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 46 | 7.4 | 11.011 h |
| March | 14.0°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 65 | 8.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.2°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 73 | 7.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 25.4°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 104 | 8.3 | 13.814 h |
| June | 28.5°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 187 | 11.2 | 14.314 h |
| July | 30.9°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 237 | 15.8 | 14.114 h |
| August | 30.3°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 189 | 15.0 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.6°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 90 | 8.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.0°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 53 | 5.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.2°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 55 | 6.6 | 10.511 h |
| December, selected | 9.6°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 35 | 5.4 | 10.010 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
December in nearby cities
- Dazhong in DecemberChina · 41 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 1.5°C · 32 mm rain
- Jiangyan in DecemberChina · 42 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 36 mm rain
- Xinghua in DecemberChina · 45 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.6°C · 32 mm rain
- Taizhou (Jiangsu), China in DecemberChina · 55 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 0.9°C · 35 mm rain
- Yancheng in DecemberChina · 58 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 0.4°C · 32 mm rain
- Rugao in DecemberChina · 59 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 1.3°C · 37 mm rain
- Taixing in DecemberChina · 81 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 1.5°C · 36 mm rain
- Gaoyou in DecemberChina · 81 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.8°C · 33 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 Dongtai) is explained once on the Dongtai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.