Climate averages 1991–2020
Fuzhou 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.
January is a cool month in Fuzhou: daytime highs average 14.3°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 42 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ningde (70 km away). In January its highs average 14.8°C, 0.5°C warmer than Fuzhou, with 65 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Fuzhou ranks joint 144th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 698th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Fuzhou is 8.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 15.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 73 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
Fuzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 14.3°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 57 | 7.3 | 10.711 h |
| February | 15.3°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 73 | 10.0 | 11.311 h |
| March | 18.3°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 133 | 14.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 136 | 15.0 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.3°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 226 | 17.0 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.4°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 249 | 18.1 | 13.714 h |
| July | 32.4°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 169 | 15.6 | 13.614 h |
| August | 31.5°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 240 | 21.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 165 | 14.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 59 | 7.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 20.9°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 62 | 8.0 | 10.911 h |
| December | 16.2°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 52 | 7.1 | 10.511 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
- Ningde in JanuaryChina · 70 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 7.1°C · 65 mm rain
- Putian in JanuaryChina · 75 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.8°C · 41 mm rain
- Songcheng in JanuaryChina · 115 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 7.5°C · 55 mm rain
- Fu’an in JanuaryChina · 119 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 5.8°C · 54 mm rain
- Nanping in JanuaryChina · 130 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 7.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Quanzhou in JanuaryChina · 147 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 9.5°C · 33 mm rain
- Ximeicun in JanuaryChina · 151 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Jinjiang in JanuaryChina · 156 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 10.0°C · 38 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 Fuzhou) is explained once on the Fuzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.