Climate averages 1991–2020
Jishou weather
in April.
A mild, very 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 mild month in Jishou: daytime highs average 21.0°C and nights cool to about 13.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 270 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 50 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fenghuang (45 km away). In April its highs average 19.6°C, 1.4°C cooler than Jishou, with 231 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jishou ranks joint 485th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 870th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Jishou is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 25.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 270 mm to 326 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
Jishou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.0°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 93 | 13.3 | 10.611 h |
| February | 10.6°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 119 | 14.3 | 11.211 h |
| March | 15.1°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 187 | 18.5 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 21.0°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 270 | 19.2 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.3°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 326 | 18.6 | 13.514 h |
| June | 28.4°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 373 | 18.7 | 13.914 h |
| July | 31.0°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 295 | 16.3 | 13.814 h |
| August | 31.0°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 166 | 14.7 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.3°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 118 | 10.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 132 | 12.4 | 11.512 h |
| November | 16.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 108 | 12.1 | 10.811 h |
| December | 10.4°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 69 | 10.4 | 10.410 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
- Fenghuang in AprilChina · 45 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 11.8°C · 231 mm rain
- Zhonghe in AprilChina · 74 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 13.0°C · 184 mm rain
- Tongren (Guizhou), China in AprilChina · 86 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 13.8°C · 177 mm rain
- Huaihua in AprilChina · 88 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 13.8°C · 240 mm rain
- Zhongduo in AprilChina · 111 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 12.4°C · 201 mm rain
- Zhangjiajie in AprilChina · 116 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 13.8°C · 220 mm rain
- Hongjiang in AprilChina · 137 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.5°C · 219 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Chongqing), China in AprilChina · 164 kmHigh 19.9°C · Low 12.7°C · 159 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 Jishou) is explained once on the Jishou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.