Climate averages 1991–2020
Haining weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Haining: daytime highs average 10.9°C and nights cool to about 4.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 13 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chóngfú (24 km away). In December its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Haining, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Haining ranks joint 335th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 872nd of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Haining is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 8.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 70 mm to 93 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
Haining climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.4°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 93 | 10.7 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.4°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 96 | 10.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.4°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 147 | 13.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.0°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 141 | 12.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 24.7°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 162 | 11.5 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.5°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 303 | 15.4 | 14.114 h |
| July | 32.0°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 168 | 11.7 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.4°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 151 | 14.5 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.3°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 109 | 10.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 66 | 6.6 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.1°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 78 | 9.0 | 10.611 h |
| December, selected | 10.9°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 70 | 8.0 | 10.210 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
- Chóngfú in DecemberChina · 24 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 59 mm rain
- Jiaxing in DecemberChina · 25 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 2.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Linping in DecemberChina · 39 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 2.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Hangzhou in DecemberChina · 57 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 59 mm rain
- Xiaoshan in DecemberChina · 58 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Shaoxing in DecemberChina · 60 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 3.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Shangyu in DecemberChina · 61 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Zhujing in DecemberChina · 61 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.7°C · 47 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 Haining) is explained once on the Haining year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.