Climate averages 1991–2020

Dushan weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 9.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 66 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Dushan: daytime highs average 9.0°C and nights cool to about 2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 43 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Duyun (48 km away). In January its highs average 8.7°C, about as warm as Dushan, with 86 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dushan ranks joint 298th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 765th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Dushan is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 11.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 66 mm to 67 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Dushan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Dushan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	9.0°C2.8°C	2.8°C	66	14.2	10.711 h
February	11.7°C5.0°C	5.0°C	67	13.8	11.311 h
March	15.5°C8.3°C	8.3°C	123	19.4	12.012 h
April	20.3°C12.9°C	12.9°C	169	20.1	12.813 h
May	23.3°C16.4°C	16.4°C	241	21.2	13.413 h
June	25.2°C19.2°C	19.2°C	287	23.4	13.714 h
July	26.4°C20.5°C	20.5°C	228	23.6	13.614 h
August	26.6°C20.0°C	20.0°C	158	19.9	13.013 h
September	24.4°C17.3°C	17.3°C	112	14.0	12.312 h
October	20.1°C13.4°C	13.4°C	97	12.4	11.612 h
November	15.8°C8.8°C	8.8°C	68	11.0	10.911 h
December	10.8°C4.2°C	4.2°C	50	9.7	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

Distance from Dushan

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Dushan) is explained once on the Dushan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.