Climate averages 1991–2020
Jianchang weather
in April.
A warm, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Jianchang: daytime highs average 23.7°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 251 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 48 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Qincheng (40 km away). In April its highs average 23.6°C, about as warm as Jianchang, with 279 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jianchang ranks joint 148th of 884 for the warmest April highs and 863rd of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Jianchang is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 251 mm to 275 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Jianchang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.6°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 80 | 10.4 | 10.611 h |
| February | 14.4°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 93 | 12.0 | 11.211 h |
| March | 18.0°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 208 | 17.3 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 23.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 251 | 17.2 | 12.813 h |
| May | 27.5°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 275 | 16.9 | 13.513 h |
| June | 29.9°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 337 | 17.1 | 13.914 h |
| July | 33.6°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 144 | 12.0 | 13.714 h |
| August | 33.1°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 129 | 14.5 | 13.113 h |
| September | 29.8°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 79 | 9.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.4°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 58 | 6.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 19.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 80 | 8.1 | 10.811 h |
| December | 13.8°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 67 | 7.8 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Qincheng in AprilChina · 40 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 15.1°C · 279 mm rain
- Xiugu in AprilChina · 41 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.9°C · 280 mm rain
- Fuzhou, China in AprilChina · 54 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.6°C · 243 mm rain
- Bashan in AprilChina · 63 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.5°C · 240 mm rain
- Jinfeng in AprilChina · 76 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.9°C · 271 mm rain
- Aoxi in AprilChina · 81 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.4°C · 229 mm rain
- Yingtan in AprilChina · 83 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.6°C · 259 mm rain
- Xujiang in AprilChina · 86 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 276 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 Jianchang) is explained once on the Jianchang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.