Climate averages 1991–2020
Lecheng weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Lecheng: daytime highs average 13.9°C and nights cool to about 5.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 58 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shaoguan (43 km away). In January its highs average 15.0°C, 1.1°C warmer than Lecheng, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lecheng ranks joint 148th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 707th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Lecheng is 8.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 16.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 58 mm to 66 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
Lecheng climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 13.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 58 | 9.0 | 10.811 h |
| February | 16.1°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 66 | 11.3 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 145 | 17.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.0°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 177 | 19.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 246 | 20.7 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.4°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 278 | 23.3 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.4°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 150 | 19.3 | 13.514 h |
| August | 31.8°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 178 | 19.5 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.8°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 97 | 13.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 26.5°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 57 | 6.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 21.2°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 56 | 7.1 | 10.911 h |
| December | 15.9°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 47 | 6.8 | 10.611 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
- Shaoguan in JanuaryChina · 43 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Maba in JanuaryChina · 55 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Shixing in JanuaryChina · 75 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 6.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Chenzhou in JanuaryChina · 81 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Xiongzhou in JanuaryChina · 96 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Lianzhou in JanuaryChina · 106 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 6.5°C · 106 mm rain
- Leiyang in JanuaryChina · 150 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 4.1°C · 69 mm rain
- Qingyuan in JanuaryChina · 162 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 9.6°C · 81 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 Lecheng) is explained once on the Lecheng year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.