Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanchong weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Nanchong: daytime highs average 10.5°C and nights cool to about 3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 24 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suining (58 km away). In January its highs average 10.9°C, about as warm as Nanchong, with 20 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchong ranks joint 227th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 476th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Nanchong is 4.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 12.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 29 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
Nanchong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Suining in JanuaryChina · 58 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 4.0°C · 20 mm rain
- Guang’an in JanuaryChina · 64 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.7°C · 35 mm rain
- Zitong in JanuaryChina · 73 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.5°C · 23 mm rain
- Hechuan in JanuaryChina · 91 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Bachuan in JanuaryChina · 105 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 5.1°C · 28 mm rain
- Beibei in JanuaryChina · 113 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.6°C · 28 mm rain
- Longgang, China in JanuaryChina · 127 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 4.7°C · 25 mm rain
- Guixi in JanuaryChina · 131 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 4.6°C · 38 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.