Climate averages 1991–2020

Lushui weather
in January.

A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Approximate: the model cell is 910 m higher than the city, so the temperatures are adjusted up by 5.9°C. For places not marked Approximate, the cell is within 400 m of the place's elevation.

Average high 21.9°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 10.2°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 62 mm 7 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Lushui · average highYear overview

January is a mild month in Lushui: daytime highs average 21.9°C and nights cool to about 10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 43 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Baoshan (Yunnan), China (84 km away). In January its highs average 15.8°C, 6.1°C cooler than Lushui, with 29 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lushui ranks 13th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 728th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Lushui is 16.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 62 mm to 96 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 5101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 4000

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

Every month, side by side

Lushui climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Lushui, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 21.9°C10.2°C10.2°C626.910.711 h
February 23.4°C11.2°C11.2°C9610.411.311 h
March 26.0°C13.8°C13.8°C17315.912.012 h
April 28.2°C16.5°C16.5°C19718.612.813 h
May 29.5°C19.4°C19.4°C23320.913.413 h
June 29.9°C22.3°C22.3°C28925.113.714 h
July 29.4°C22.7°C22.7°C38429.413.614 h
August 30.0°C22.8°C22.8°C29627.413.013 h
September 29.1°C21.6°C21.6°C22723.412.312 h
October 27.5°C18.8°C18.8°C16315.611.612 h
November 25.0°C14.3°C14.3°C536.310.911 h
December 22.8°C11.3°C11.3°C274.210.611 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

Distance from Lushui

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