Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanchong weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Nanchong: daytime highs average 11.6°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 12 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suining (58 km away). In December its highs average 12.0°C, about as warm as Nanchong, with 23 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchong ranks joint 251st of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 539th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Nanchong is 4.1°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 10.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 25 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Nanchong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 25 | 6.4 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 29 | 7.2 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.2°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 55 | 10.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.4°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 96 | 12.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 135 | 13.1 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 184 | 14.1 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.2°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 216 | 16.8 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 174 | 14.4 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.5°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 138 | 13.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 57 | 9.4 | 10.611 h |
| December, selected | 11.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 30 | 6.9 | 10.210 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
December in nearby cities
- Suining in DecemberChina · 58 kmHigh 12.0°C · Low 5.7°C · 23 mm rain
- Guang’an in DecemberChina · 64 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 6.4°C · 43 mm rain
- Zitong in DecemberChina · 73 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 6.2°C · 28 mm rain
- Hechuan in DecemberChina · 91 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 6.9°C · 34 mm rain
- Bachuan in DecemberChina · 105 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 6.7°C · 34 mm rain
- Beibei in DecemberChina · 113 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.2°C · 37 mm rain
- Longgang, China in DecemberChina · 127 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 6.3°C · 31 mm rain
- Guixi in DecemberChina · 131 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 6.2°C · 47 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 Nanchong) is explained once on the Nanchong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.