Climate averages 1991–2020

Lishui weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 10.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 3.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 63 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Lishui: daytime highs average 10.9°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 33 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Guli (48 km away). In January its highs average 10.1°C, 0.8°C cooler than Lishui, with 74 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lishui ranks joint 198th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 737th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Lishui is 5.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 13.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 64 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

Lishui climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lishui, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	10.9°C3.2°C	3.2°C	63	9.5	10.511 h
February	13.3°C4.7°C	4.7°C	64	10.4	11.211 h
March	17.2°C8.1°C	8.1°C	116	14.1	12.012 h
April	22.8°C13.1°C	13.1°C	130	14.2	12.813 h
May	26.7°C18.0°C	18.0°C	185	14.8	13.514 h
June	29.3°C21.8°C	21.8°C	292	17.6	13.914 h
July	33.2°C24.9°C	24.9°C	130	12.5	13.814 h
August	32.7°C24.8°C	24.8°C	147	14.7	13.213 h
September	28.7°C21.4°C	21.4°C	104	11.5	12.412 h
October	24.0°C16.0°C	16.0°C	57	6.7	11.512 h
November	18.8°C10.8°C	10.8°C	65	7.6	10.811 h
December	13.0°C4.9°C	4.9°C	53	7.4	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

Distance from Lishui

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