Climate averages 1991–2020

Hengyang weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 10.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 3.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 73 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Hengyang: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 39 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Leiyang (59 km away). In January its highs average 10.8°C, about as warm as Hengyang, with 69 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hengyang ranks joint 231st of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 800th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Hengyang is 4.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 13.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 73 mm to 82 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

Hengyang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Hengyang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	10.3°C3.8°C	3.8°C	73	11.2	10.711 h
February	13.1°C6.0°C	6.0°C	82	12.5	11.211 h
March	17.0°C9.5°C	9.5°C	164	18.4	12.012 h
April	23.1°C15.0°C	15.0°C	220	17.7	12.813 h
May	27.1°C19.5°C	19.5°C	268	17.6	13.513 h
June	29.9°C23.2°C	23.2°C	292	17.9	13.814 h
July	33.4°C26.2°C	26.2°C	148	12.1	13.714 h
August	33.2°C25.8°C	25.8°C	134	13.8	13.113 h
September	29.5°C22.0°C	22.0°C	80	9.9	12.312 h
October	24.5°C16.7°C	16.7°C	71	7.9	11.512 h
November	18.5°C10.9°C	10.9°C	81	8.5	10.811 h
December	12.7°C5.5°C	5.5°C	50	7.8	10.510 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 Hengyang

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