Climate averages 1991–2020
Linxia Chengguanzhen weather
in April.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Linxia Chengguanzhen: daytime highs average 15.6°C and nights cool to about 1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 04 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanzhou (76 km away). In April its highs average 19.4°C, 3.8°C warmer than Linxia Chengguanzhen, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Linxia Chengguanzhen ranks joint 750th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 176th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Linxia Chengguanzhen is 5.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 19.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 33 mm to 64 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Linxia Chengguanzhen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.1°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 7.5 | 2.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 2.9°C-9.4°C | -9.4°C | 12 | 3.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 9.0°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 22 | 5.5 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 15.6°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 33 | 7.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 19.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 64 | 10.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 22.9°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 74 | 10.8 | 14.515 h |
| July | 24.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 104 | 13.6 | 14.314 h |
| August | 23.5°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 122 | 14.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 18.8°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 104 | 14.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 13.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 13.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 7.3°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 15 | 4.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 1.8°C-8.7°C | -8.7°C | 4.1 | 1.2 | 9.810 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Lanzhou in AprilChina · 76 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 5.5°C · 24 mm rain
- Tongren (Qinghai), China in AprilChina · 108 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low -1.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Nianbo in AprilChina · 121 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 3.0°C · 35 mm rain
- Dingxi in AprilChina · 128 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 1.8°C · 35 mm rain
- Baiyin in AprilChina · 136 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 4.4°C · 18 mm rain
- Xining in AprilChina · 173 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 1.3°C · 30 mm rain
- Luomen in AprilChina · 190 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 5.5°C · 41 mm rain
- Pan’an in AprilChina · 197 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 41 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 Linxia Chengguanzhen) is explained once on the Linxia Chengguanzhen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.