Climate averages 1991–2020

Lidu weather
in January.

A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 11.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 5.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 33 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Lidu: daytime highs average 11.0°C and nights cool to about 5.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 28 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Fuling (10 km away). In January its highs average 10.8°C, about as warm as Lidu, with 33 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lidu ranks joint 188th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 556th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Lidu is 5.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 13.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 33 mm to 40 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Lidu climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lidu, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	11.0°C5.2°C	5.2°C	33	8.3	10.510 h
February	13.6°C6.9°C	6.9°C	40	9.1	11.111 h
March	17.8°C10.1°C	10.1°C	83	14.0	12.012 h
April	22.7°C14.5°C	14.5°C	127	15.2	12.913 h
May	26.1°C18.2°C	18.2°C	179	16.8	13.614 h
June	28.9°C21.8°C	21.8°C	187	15.9	14.014 h
July	32.1°C24.4°C	24.4°C	158	14.1	13.914 h
August	32.3°C24.3°C	24.3°C	133	13.4	13.213 h
September	28.0°C20.7°C	20.7°C	117	12.4	12.412 h
October	22.0°C16.2°C	16.2°C	112	15.3	11.511 h
November	17.4°C11.5°C	11.5°C	82	11.8	10.711 h
December	12.3°C6.9°C	6.9°C	42	9.7	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Lidu

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