Climate averages 1991–2020
Heze weather
in January.
A cold, very dry month: the coolest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Heze: daytime highs average 6.2°C and nights cool to about -3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 9.4 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes January a very dry month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 04 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Puyang Chengguanzhen (66 km away). In January its highs average 5.7°C, about as warm as Heze, with 6.7 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Heze ranks joint 494th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 309th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Heze is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 9.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 9.4 mm to 13 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
Heze climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.2°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 9.4 | 2.1 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.7°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 13 | 2.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 15.6°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 21 | 3.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.0°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 37 | 4.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 27.3°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 58 | 5.8 | 14.014 h |
| June | 31.8°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 75 | 7.1 | 14.514 h |
| July | 31.8°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 192 | 13.5 | 14.314 h |
| August | 30.1°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 148 | 12.5 | 13.513 h |
| September | 26.7°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 81 | 7.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.9°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 31 | 4.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.3°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 27 | 3.9 | 10.310 h |
| December | 7.9°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 9.4 | 2.3 | 9.810 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
- Puyang Chengguanzhen in JanuaryChina · 66 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -4.3°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Puyang, China in JanuaryChina · 69 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low -4.5°C · 6.7 mm rain
- Shancheng in JanuaryChina · 74 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low -3.5°C · 13 mm rain
- Shangqiu in JanuaryChina · 93 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low -3.2°C · 14 mm rain
- Shouxian in JanuaryChina · 100 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -3.4°C · 14 mm rain
- Yanggu in JanuaryChina · 101 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -4.5°C · 6.4 mm rain
- Jining in JanuaryChina · 102 kmHigh 5.7°C · Low -4.0°C · 9.3 mm rain
- Zhoucheng in JanuaryChina · 107 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -4.5°C · 6.6 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 Heze) is explained once on the Heze year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.