Climate averages 1991–2020
Fuding 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 Fuding: daytime highs average 12.8°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 59 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 37 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinxiang (40 km away). In January its highs average 12.2°C, 0.6°C cooler than Fuding, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Fuding ranks joint 158th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 713th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Fuding is 6.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 14.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 mm to 65 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
Fuding climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.8°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 59 | 8.8 | 10.611 h |
| February | 14.0°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 65 | 10.1 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.1°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 117 | 14.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.9°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 127 | 14.5 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.7°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 200 | 16.3 | 13.513 h |
| June | 28.9°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 303 | 18.7 | 13.814 h |
| July | 32.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 223 | 17.4 | 13.714 h |
| August | 31.2°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 301 | 22.2 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 194 | 16.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.2°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 85 | 8.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 19.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 84 | 10.0 | 10.811 h |
| December | 14.8°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 60 | 8.5 | 10.510 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
- Jinxiang in JanuaryChina · 40 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 7.2°C · 65 mm rain
- Songcheng in JanuaryChina · 54 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 7.5°C · 55 mm rain
- Fu’an in JanuaryChina · 62 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.8°C · 54 mm rain
- Rui’an in JanuaryChina · 66 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 5.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Wenzhou in JanuaryChina · 87 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 4.7°C · 73 mm rain
- Ningde in JanuaryChina · 101 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 65 mm rain
- Lishui in JanuaryChina · 129 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 3.2°C · 63 mm rain
- Fuzhou in JanuaryChina · 167 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 7.1°C · 57 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 Fuding) is explained once on the Fuding year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.