Climate averages 1991–2020
Gejiu weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Gejiu: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 14.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 41 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mengzi (23 km away). In April its highs average 25.9°C, 2.0°C warmer than Gejiu, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Gejiu ranks joint 140th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 428th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Gejiu is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 113 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Gejiu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 25 | 3.5 | 10.911 h |
| February | 17.8°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 18 | 3.9 | 11.411 h |
| March | 21.6°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 37 | 6.9 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 23.9°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 52 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| May | 24.7°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 113 | 15.3 | 13.313 h |
| June | 24.6°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 166 | 22.3 | 13.514 h |
| July | 23.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 255 | 25.7 | 13.413 h |
| August | 23.8°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 266 | 26.1 | 12.913 h |
| September | 22.8°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 135 | 19.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.7°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 61 | 11.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 18.4°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 27 | 3.7 | 11.011 h |
| December | 15.6°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 18 | 2.6 | 10.711 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
April in nearby cities
- Mengzi in AprilChina · 23 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Kaiyuan (Yunnan), China in AprilChina · 40 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 15.9°C · 30 mm rain
- Wenshan City in AprilChina · 112 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.6°C · 54 mm rain
- Miyang in AprilChina · 120 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 15.0°C · 42 mm rain
- Yuxi in AprilChina · 127 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Lào Cai in AprilVietnam · 128 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 20.6°C · 129 mm rain
- Zhongshu in AprilChina · 143 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 13.2°C · 56 mm rain
- Haikou, China in AprilChina · 168 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 13.9°C · 46 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 Gejiu) is explained once on the Gejiu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.