Climate averages 1991–2020
Gantang weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Gantang: daytime highs average 11.6°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 48 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 27 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yongfeng (19 km away). In December its highs average 12.0°C, about as warm as Gantang, with 48 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Gantang ranks joint 251st of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 749th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Gantang is 4.0°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 9.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 48 mm to 61 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
Gantang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 61 | 10.5 | 10.611 h |
| February | 11.9°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 77 | 12.3 | 11.211 h |
| March | 16.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 147 | 17.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 195 | 17.6 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.4°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 249 | 17.2 | 13.513 h |
| June | 29.2°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 301 | 18.3 | 13.814 h |
| July | 32.5°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 191 | 14.1 | 13.714 h |
| August | 32.0°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 140 | 14.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.2°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 84 | 10.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.2°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 71 | 8.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 17.3°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 70 | 9.2 | 10.811 h |
| December, selected | 11.6°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 48 | 7.9 | 10.410 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
- Yongfeng in DecemberChina · 19 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 4.8°C · 48 mm rain
- Loudi in DecemberChina · 33 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 4.1°C · 53 mm rain
- Shaoyang in DecemberChina · 55 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 4.6°C · 43 mm rain
- Lengshuijiang in DecemberChina · 60 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 4.5°C · 49 mm rain
- Xiangxiang in DecemberChina · 64 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 4.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Shangmei in DecemberChina · 75 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 4.6°C · 53 mm rain
- Shaoshan in DecemberChina · 76 kmHigh 11.8°C · Low 4.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Hengyang in DecemberChina · 88 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 5.5°C · 50 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 Gantang) is explained once on the Gantang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.