Climate averages 1991–2020
Hefei weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Hefei: daytime highs average 7.8°C and nights cool to about -0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 48 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 19 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chaohu (63 km away). In January its highs average 7.8°C, about as warm as Hefei, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hefei ranks joint 410th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 665th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Hefei is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 10.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 48 mm to 52 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
Hefei climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.8°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 48 | 7.4 | 10.310 h |
| February | 10.6°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 52 | 8.2 | 11.011 h |
| March | 15.4°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 73 | 9.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.6°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 91 | 8.9 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.3°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 113 | 9.9 | 13.814 h |
| June | 29.1°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 193 | 11.6 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.6°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 189 | 14.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 154 | 12.8 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.5°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 79 | 8.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.6°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 52 | 6.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.4°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 43 | 6.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.0°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 29 | 5.2 | 10.110 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
- Chaohu in JanuaryChina · 63 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 0.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Lucheng in JanuaryChina · 70 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low -0.1°C · 61 mm rain
- Lu’an in JanuaryChina · 74 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 47 mm rain
- Huainan in JanuaryChina · 89 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -1.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Wuyang in JanuaryChina · 99 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low -1.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Chuzhou in JanuaryChina · 108 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -1.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Tongling in JanuaryChina · 112 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 0.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Ma’anshan in JanuaryChina · 118 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low -0.3°C · 59 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 Hefei) is explained once on the Hefei year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.