Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanchuan 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 Nanchuan: daytime highs average 9.3°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 36 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 30 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wansheng (27 km away). In January its highs average 10.7°C, 1.4°C warmer than Nanchuan, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchuan ranks joint 273rd 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; Nanchuan is 3.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 36 mm to 43 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
Nanchuan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Wansheng in JanuaryChina · 27 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 4.8°C · 49 mm rain
- Gunan in JanuaryChina · 47 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 5.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Banan in JanuaryChina · 60 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 5.7°C · 28 mm rain
- Wulong (approximate) in JanuaryChina · 67 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 4.5°C · 57 mm rain
- Lidu in JanuaryChina · 68 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 5.2°C · 33 mm rain
- Fuling in JanuaryChina · 68 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 4.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Luohuang in JanuaryChina · 68 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.7°C · 32 mm rain
- Chongqing in JanuaryChina · 70 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 5.1°C · 28 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 Nanchuan) is explained once on the Nanchuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.