Climate averages 1991–2020

Liping weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 8.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 78 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Liping: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 2.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 42 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kaili (121 km away). In January its highs average 8.2°C, about as warm as Liping, with 45 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Liping ranks joint 346th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 827th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Liping is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 11.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 78 mm to 94 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

Liping climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Liping, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	8.6°C2.9°C	2.9°C	78	13.0	10.711 h
February	11.3°C5.0°C	5.0°C	94	13.5	11.311 h
March	15.3°C8.6°C	8.6°C	166	18.7	12.012 h
April	20.9°C13.8°C	13.8°C	223	19.6	12.813 h
May	24.7°C17.9°C	17.9°C	289	20.2	13.413 h
June	27.2°C21.3°C	21.3°C	319	22.1	13.814 h
July	29.0°C23.0°C	23.0°C	232	19.6	13.614 h
August	29.2°C22.6°C	22.6°C	159	18.2	13.113 h
September	26.7°C19.5°C	19.5°C	104	12.4	12.312 h
October	21.7°C14.8°C	14.8°C	93	10.3	11.612 h
November	16.6°C9.7°C	9.7°C	78	9.9	10.911 h
December	11.1°C4.6°C	4.6°C	57	9.5	10.511 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 Liping

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