Climate averages 1991–2020
Meishan weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Meishan: daytime highs average 10.3°C and nights cool to about 3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 36 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 27 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Leshan (54 km away). In January its highs average 10.3°C, about as warm as Meishan, with 46 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Meishan ranks joint 231st of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 586th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Meishan is 4.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 12.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 36 mm to 32 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Meishan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 36 | 10.3 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.8°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 32 | 8.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.5°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 39 | 10.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 60 | 10.9 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 75 | 11.7 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.9°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 123 | 13.2 | 14.014 h |
| July | 30.0°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 253 | 20.4 | 13.914 h |
| August | 29.5°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 276 | 19.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 25.7°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 120 | 15.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.9°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 65 | 15.4 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 41 | 10.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.6°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 28 | 8.1 | 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
- Leshan in JanuaryChina · 54 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 4.5°C · 46 mm rain
- Chengdu in JanuaryChina · 73 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 3.1°C · 3.4 mm rain
- Luocheng in JanuaryChina · 76 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 4.1°C · 21 mm rain
- Ziyang in JanuaryChina · 79 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 4.2°C · 17 mm rain
- Ya'an in JanuaryChina · 81 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 2.7°C · 45 mm rain
- Zigong in JanuaryChina · 120 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 5.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Neijiang in JanuaryChina · 129 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 4.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Deyang in JanuaryChina · 132 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 2.9°C · 11 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 Meishan) is explained once on the Meishan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.