Climate averages 1991–2020
Jishou weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Jishou: daytime highs average 8.0°C and nights cool to about 1.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 34 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fenghuang (45 km away). In January its highs average 6.7°C, 1.3°C cooler than Jishou, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jishou ranks joint 395th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 875th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Jishou is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 10.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 93 mm to 119 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Fenghuang in JanuaryChina · 45 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.8°C · 93 mm rain
- Zhonghe in JanuaryChina · 74 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.4°C · 76 mm rain
- Tongren (Guizhou), China in JanuaryChina · 86 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 3.3°C · 81 mm rain
- Huaihua in JanuaryChina · 88 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.1°C · 90 mm rain
- Zhongduo in JanuaryChina · 111 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 2.0°C · 86 mm rain
- Zhangjiajie in JanuaryChina · 116 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Hongjiang in JanuaryChina · 137 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 3.6°C · 88 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Chongqing), China in JanuaryChina · 164 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 2.1°C · 57 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.