Climate averages 1991–2020
Guangzhou weather
in April.
A warm, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Guangzhou: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 19.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 197 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 40 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Foshan (16 km away). In April its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Guangzhou, with 197 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Guangzhou ranks joint 52nd of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 821st of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Guangzhou is 6.2°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 197 mm to 290 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
Guangzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 41 | 6.4 | 10.911 h |
| February | 20.2°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 55 | 8.9 | 11.411 h |
| March | 23.2°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 117 | 14.3 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 26.8°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 197 | 16.5 | 12.713 h |
| May | 29.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 290 | 21.0 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.8°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 336 | 22.7 | 13.514 h |
| July | 31.7°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 229 | 21.8 | 13.413 h |
| August | 31.6°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 264 | 22.1 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.5°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 177 | 15.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.3°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 58 | 6.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 35 | 5.3 | 11.011 h |
| December | 20.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 37 | 4.7 | 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
- Foshan in AprilChina · 16 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 20.1°C · 197 mm rain
- Dasha in AprilChina · 20 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 19.9°C · 199 mm rain
- Shiqiao in AprilChina · 22 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 20.2°C · 197 mm rain
- Daliang in AprilChina · 31 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 20.3°C · 176 mm rain
- Sanshui in AprilChina · 37 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 19.6°C · 221 mm rain
- Nantou, China in AprilChina · 44 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 20.4°C · 176 mm rain
- Shaping in AprilChina · 49 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 20.1°C · 175 mm rain
- Dongguan in AprilChina · 52 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 20.2°C · 182 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 Guangzhou) is explained once on the Guangzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Foshan and Shiqiao lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.