Climate averages 1991–2020
Hanzhong weather
in January.
A cold, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Hanzhong: daytime highs average 7.1°C and nights cool to about -0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 14 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chenggu (29 km away). In January its highs average 7.2°C, about as warm as Hanzhong, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hanzhong ranks joint 448th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 505th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Hanzhong is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 9.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 28 mm to 35 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
Hanzhong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.1°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 28 | 7.4 | 10.210 h |
| February | 9.7°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 35 | 8.7 | 11.011 h |
| March | 14.3°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 55 | 10.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.9°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 62 | 10.2 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 105 | 11.6 | 13.814 h |
| June | 26.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 145 | 11.6 | 14.314 h |
| July | 28.2°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 262 | 17.5 | 14.114 h |
| August | 27.5°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 182 | 15.6 | 13.413 h |
| September | 22.7°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 170 | 15.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 18.0°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 110 | 14.4 | 11.411 h |
| November | 13.1°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 64 | 10.7 | 10.510 h |
| December | 8.4°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 31 | 7.7 | 10.010 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
- Chenggu in JanuaryChina · 29 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -0.7°C · 22 mm rain
- Mianyang, China in JanuaryChina · 32 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 0.4°C · 18 mm rain
- Xixiang in JanuaryChina · 70 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 0.3°C · 16 mm rain
- Donghe in JanuaryChina · 115 kmHigh 9.4°C · Low 1.7°C · 30 mm rain
- Guangyuan in JanuaryChina · 132 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.4°C · 20 mm rain
- Bazhong in JanuaryChina · 137 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 2.0°C · 30 mm rain
- Baoji in JanuaryChina · 145 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -2.3°C · 14 mm rain
- Guozhen in JanuaryChina · 147 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -2.8°C · 14 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 Hanzhong) is explained once on the Hanzhong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.