Climate averages 1991–2020

Hechuan weather
in January.

A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 11.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 5.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 26 mm 7 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Hechuan: daytime highs average 11.2°C and nights cool to about 5.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 26 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 27 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Beibei (25 km away). In January its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Hechuan, with 28 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hechuan ranks joint 178th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 484th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Hechuan is 5.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 13.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 26 mm to 29 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

Hechuan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Hechuan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	11.2°C5.3°C	5.3°C	26	7.0	10.410 h
February	13.8°C7.1°C	7.1°C	29	7.6	11.111 h
March	18.0°C10.4°C	10.4°C	65	12.0	12.012 h
April	23.0°C14.7°C	14.7°C	106	13.3	12.913 h
May	26.3°C18.4°C	18.4°C	146	14.9	13.614 h
June	28.9°C21.9°C	21.9°C	172	15.4	14.014 h
July	32.0°C24.9°C	24.9°C	182	15.5	13.914 h
August	32.3°C25.0°C	25.0°C	157	15.0	13.213 h
September	27.6°C21.1°C	21.1°C	117	13.1	12.412 h
October	21.8°C16.3°C	16.3°C	95	14.9	11.511 h
November	17.4°C11.6°C	11.6°C	60	10.6	10.711 h
December	12.4°C6.9°C	6.9°C	34	8.2	10.310 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 Hechuan

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 Hechuan) is explained once on the Hechuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.