Climate averages 1991–2020
Guangzhou weather
in January.
A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Guangzhou: daytime highs average 18.6°C and nights cool to about 10.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 53 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Foshan (16 km away). In January its highs average 18.6°C, about as warm as Guangzhou, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Guangzhou ranks joint 68th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 618th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Guangzhou is 12.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 20.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 55 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
Guangzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Foshan in JanuaryChina · 16 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 10.9°C · 41 mm rain
- Dasha in JanuaryChina · 20 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 10.7°C · 40 mm rain
- Shiqiao in JanuaryChina · 22 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 11.1°C · 41 mm rain
- Daliang in JanuaryChina · 31 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 11.3°C · 35 mm rain
- Sanshui in JanuaryChina · 37 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 10.4°C · 50 mm rain
- Nantou, China in JanuaryChina · 44 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 11.3°C · 35 mm rain
- Shaping in JanuaryChina · 49 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 11.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Dongguan in JanuaryChina · 52 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 11.1°C · 35 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.