Climate averages 1991–2020

Jinhua weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 10.3°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 2.7°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 73 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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January is a cool month in Jinhua: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 2.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 30 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanxi (Zhejiang), China (21 km away). In January its highs average 10.1°C, about as warm as Jinhua, with 77 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinhua ranks joint 231st of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 800th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Jinhua is 4.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 12.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 73 mm to 78 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. 0510152025303540 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

Jinhua climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Jinhua, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 10.3°C2.7°C2.7°C7310.010.511 h
February 12.7°C4.2°C4.2°C7811.611.111 h
March 16.7°C7.7°C7.7°C14515.012.012 h
April 22.4°C12.7°C12.7°C17215.012.813 h
May 26.7°C17.8°C17.8°C20915.813.614 h
June 29.0°C21.6°C21.6°C34619.314.014 h
July 33.3°C25.1°C25.1°C17214.813.814 h
August 33.2°C25.3°C25.3°C16515.013.213 h
September 29.1°C21.6°C21.6°C11011.312.412 h
October 24.3°C16.1°C16.1°C627.111.511 h
November 18.7°C10.5°C10.5°C829.110.711 h
December 12.6°C4.5°C4.5°C627.910.310 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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Jinhua

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