Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinshi weather
in April.
A warm, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Jinshi: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 13.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 154 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 52 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiulin (53 km away). In April its highs average 22.1°C, about as warm as Jinshi, with 170 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinshi ranks joint 349th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 742nd of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Jinshi is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 154 mm to 185 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
Jinshi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.0°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 60 | 8.8 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.6°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 77 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.1°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 117 | 14.1 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 22.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 154 | 14.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.4°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 185 | 14.3 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 241 | 15.3 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.7°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 251 | 15.6 | 13.814 h |
| August | 31.4°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 148 | 14.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.8°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 90 | 9.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.7°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 84 | 9.2 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 72 | 8.9 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.2°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 36 | 6.5 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Xiulin in AprilChina · 53 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 13.6°C · 170 mm rain
- Changde in AprilChina · 66 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 13.5°C · 150 mm rain
- Buhe in AprilChina · 83 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 13.2°C · 130 mm rain
- Zhicheng in AprilChina · 84 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Jingzhou in AprilChina · 88 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 13.3°C · 130 mm rain
- Zhijiang in AprilChina · 91 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.0°C · 109 mm rain
- Yueyang in AprilChina · 121 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.1°C · 211 mm rain
- Heshan in AprilChina · 124 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.8°C · 183 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 Jinshi) is explained once on the Jinshi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.