Climate averages 1991–2020

Nanchuan weather
in April.

A mild, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 21.2°C Daytime mean, April

Average low 13.2°C Night-time mean, April

Rainfall 134 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

April is a mild month in Nanchuan: daytime highs average 21.2°C and nights cool to about 13.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 134 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes April a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 51 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Wansheng (27 km away). In April its highs average 22.4°C, 1.2°C warmer than Nanchuan, with 140 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchuan ranks joint 468th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 706th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Nanchuan is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 134 mm to 191 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Nanchuan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Nanchuan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	9.3°C3.2°C	3.2°C	36	9.4	10.511 h
February	12.0°C5.3°C	5.3°C	43	10.2	11.111 h
March	16.2°C8.7°C	8.7°C	85	15.0	12.012 h
April, selected	21.2°C13.2°C	13.2°C	134	17.2	12.913 h
May	24.7°C16.8°C	16.8°C	191	18.2	13.614 h
June	27.4°C20.4°C	20.4°C	197	18.7	14.014 h
July	30.5°C22.9°C	22.9°C	188	17.6	13.814 h
August	30.4°C22.6°C	22.6°C	170	17.0	13.213 h
September	26.3°C19.1°C	19.1°C	123	13.7	12.412 h
October	20.5°C14.7°C	14.7°C	121	16.4	11.511 h
November	15.9°C9.9°C	9.9°C	80	12.5	10.711 h
December	10.7°C5.0°C	5.0°C	42	10.0	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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Nanchuan

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