Climate averages 1991–2020

Hechi weather
in January.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 13.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 7.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 104 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Hechi: daytime highs average 13.7°C and nights cool to about 7.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 47 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Yizhou (63 km away). In January its highs average 14.0°C, about as warm as Hechi, with 88 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hechi ranks 152nd of 884 for the warmest January highs and 883rd of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Hechi is 7.8°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 16.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 104 mm to 103 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Hechi climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Hechi, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	13.7°C7.8°C	7.8°C	104	15.0	10.811 h
February	16.1°C9.9°C	9.9°C	103	15.8	11.311 h
March	19.4°C13.1°C	13.1°C	185	22.1	12.012 h
April	24.3°C17.5°C	17.5°C	257	22.2	12.713 h
May	27.3°C20.8°C	20.8°C	393	22.4	13.313 h
June	29.1°C23.4°C	23.4°C	453	24.7	13.614 h
July	30.2°C24.3°C	24.3°C	359	25.0	13.514 h
August	30.5°C24.1°C	24.1°C	230	20.7	13.013 h
September	28.8°C21.9°C	21.9°C	131	13.6	12.312 h
October	25.3°C18.1°C	18.1°C	102	10.9	11.612 h
November	20.7°C13.5°C	13.5°C	95	10.9	11.011 h
December	15.7°C8.8°C	8.8°C	75	10.5	10.611 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

Distance from Hechi

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Hechi) is explained once on the Hechi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.