Climate averages 1991–2020

Huaihua weather
in January.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 8.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 3.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 90 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Huaihua: daytime highs average 8.9°C and nights cool to about 3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 36 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hongjiang (50 km away). In January its highs average 9.6°C, 0.7°C warmer than Huaihua, with 88 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Huaihua ranks joint 314th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 873rd of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Huaihua is 3.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 11.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 109 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

Huaihua climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Huaihua, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	8.9°C3.1°C	3.1°C	90	13.8	10.611 h
February	11.5°C5.1°C	5.1°C	109	14.7	11.211 h
March	15.6°C8.6°C	8.6°C	184	18.5	12.012 h
April	21.5°C13.8°C	13.8°C	240	18.9	12.813 h
May	25.7°C18.1°C	18.1°C	270	17.6	13.513 h
June	28.5°C21.9°C	21.9°C	270	18.3	13.914 h
July	31.1°C24.5°C	24.5°C	192	15.2	13.714 h
August	31.3°C24.1°C	24.1°C	127	14.2	13.113 h
September	28.0°C20.4°C	20.4°C	83	9.4	12.312 h
October	22.3°C15.3°C	15.3°C	96	10.7	11.512 h
November	16.9°C10.0°C	10.0°C	82	10.6	10.811 h
December	11.2°C4.9°C	4.9°C	64	10.5	10.410 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 Huaihua

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