Climate averages 1991–2020

Jingmen weather
in January.

A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 8.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 0.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 31 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Jingmen: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 0.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 23 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhongxiang (39 km away). In January its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Jingmen, with 28 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jingmen ranks joint 346th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 537th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Jingmen is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 11.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 31 mm to 38 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

Jingmen climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Jingmen, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	8.6°C0.3°C	0.3°C	31	5.2	10.410 h
February	11.5°C2.5°C	2.5°C	38	6.6	11.111 h
March	16.1°C6.7°C	6.7°C	62	9.6	12.012 h
April	22.1°C12.5°C	12.5°C	100	10.5	12.913 h
May	26.4°C17.5°C	17.5°C	142	11.4	13.714 h
June	29.4°C21.7°C	21.7°C	202	12.6	14.114 h
July	31.2°C24.7°C	24.7°C	223	15.0	14.014 h
August	30.8°C24.1°C	24.1°C	159	14.2	13.313 h
September	27.1°C19.7°C	19.7°C	89	9.3	12.412 h
October	22.3°C14.2°C	14.2°C	73	7.9	11.411 h
November	16.3°C8.0°C	8.0°C	49	7.1	10.611 h
December	10.6°C2.4°C	2.4°C	22	4.5	10.210 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 Jingmen

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