Climate averages 1991–2020
Mengzi weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: one of the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Mengzi: daytime highs average 16.6°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 36 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 52 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gejiu (23 km away). In January its highs average 15.3°C, 1.2°C cooler than Mengzi, with 25 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Mengzi ranks joint 114th 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; Mengzi is 10.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 19.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 36 mm to 28 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
Mengzi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 16.6°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 36 | 7.6 | 10.911 h |
| February | 19.4°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 28 | 7.1 | 11.411 h |
| March | 23.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 58 | 11.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.9°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 91 | 16.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 26.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 164 | 20.4 | 13.313 h |
| June | 26.5°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 230 | 24.5 | 13.514 h |
| July | 25.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 281 | 27.1 | 13.413 h |
| August | 25.9°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 273 | 26.4 | 12.913 h |
| September | 24.8°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 143 | 20.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 22.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 84 | 15.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 19.9°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 39 | 7.3 | 11.011 h |
| December | 16.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 27 | 5.8 | 10.711 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
- Gejiu in JanuaryChina · 23 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 7.4°C · 25 mm rain
- Kaiyuan (Yunnan), China in JanuaryChina · 38 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 8.3°C · 18 mm rain
- Wenshan City in JanuaryChina · 89 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 7.8°C · 22 mm rain
- Lào Cai in JanuaryVietnam · 115 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 12.1°C · 96 mm rain
- Miyang in JanuaryChina · 115 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 7.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Zhongshu in JanuaryChina · 134 kmHigh 14.6°C · Low 5.0°C · 29 mm rain
- Yuxi in JanuaryChina · 139 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 7.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Haikou, China in JanuaryChina · 177 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 6.4°C · 27 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 Mengzi) is explained once on the Mengzi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.