Climate averages 1991–2020

Jieshi weather
in January.

A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 18.5°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 12.8°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 25 mm 4 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Jieshi · average highYear overview

January is a mild month in Jieshi: daytime highs average 18.5°C and nights cool to about 12.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 54 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Donghai (25 km away). In January its highs average 19.6°C, 1.0°C warmer than Jieshi, with 25 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jieshi ranks joint 70th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 476th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Jieshi is 12.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 19.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 38 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Jieshi climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Jieshi, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 18.5°C12.8°C12.8°C254.110.911 h
February 19.4°C13.9°C13.9°C386.511.411 h
March 21.9°C16.4°C16.4°C538.212.012 h
April 24.8°C20.0°C20.0°C10711.412.713 h
May 27.3°C23.3°C23.3°C20417.013.213 h
June 28.7°C25.5°C25.5°C31423.213.514 h
July 29.7°C26.2°C26.2°C27922.613.413 h
August 29.6°C26.0°C26.0°C31622.912.913 h
September 29.0°C25.0°C25.0°C20315.512.312 h
October 26.9°C22.2°C22.2°C585.611.612 h
November 23.9°C18.6°C18.6°C424.311.111 h
December 19.9°C14.4°C14.4°C324.310.811 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 Jieshi

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