Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinhua weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Jinhua: daytime highs average 12.6°C and nights cool to about 4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 19 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanxi (Zhejiang), China (21 km away). In December its highs average 12.4°C, about as warm as Jinhua, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinhua ranks joint 189th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 836th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Jinhua is 5.0°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 10.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 62 mm to 73 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Jinhua climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.3°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 73 | 10.0 | 10.511 h |
| February | 12.7°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 78 | 11.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 145 | 15.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.4°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 172 | 15.0 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.7°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 209 | 15.8 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.0°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 346 | 19.3 | 14.014 h |
| July | 33.3°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 172 | 14.8 | 13.814 h |
| August | 33.2°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 165 | 15.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 29.1°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 110 | 11.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.3°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 62 | 7.1 | 11.511 h |
| November | 18.7°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 82 | 9.1 | 10.711 h |
| December, selected | 12.6°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 62 | 7.9 | 10.310 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
December in nearby cities
- Lanxi (Zhejiang), China in DecemberChina · 21 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Guli in DecemberChina · 45 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Puyang in DecemberChina · 46 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 4.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Yiwu in DecemberChina · 48 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 3.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Dongyang in DecemberChina · 59 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 3.8°C · 56 mm rain
- Lishui in DecemberChina · 76 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 53 mm rain
- Quzhou in DecemberChina · 77 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 3.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Zhuji in DecemberChina · 89 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 60 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 Jinhua) is explained once on the Jinhua year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.