Climate averages 1991–2020

Nanping weather
in January.

A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 15.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 7.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 66 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Nanping: daytime highs average 15.4°C and nights cool to about 7.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 40 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Sanming (71 km away). In January its highs average 15.7°C, about as warm as Nanping, with 62 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanping ranks 128th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 765th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Nanping is 9.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 17.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 66 mm to 81 mm.

The annual picture

January 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

Nanping climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Nanping, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	15.4°C7.3°C	7.3°C	66	9.1	10.711 h
February	17.2°C8.6°C	8.6°C	81	11.0	11.211 h
March	20.3°C11.5°C	11.5°C	155	16.0	12.012 h
April	25.2°C15.9°C	15.9°C	174	16.3	12.813 h
May	28.6°C20.1°C	20.1°C	223	17.2	13.413 h
June	31.0°C23.2°C	23.2°C	271	17.5	13.814 h
July	34.6°C25.4°C	25.4°C	123	13.0	13.614 h
August	33.9°C25.4°C	25.4°C	150	16.0	13.113 h
September	31.2°C23.0°C	23.0°C	96	11.0	12.312 h
October	27.3°C18.6°C	18.6°C	51	6.7	11.512 h
November	22.2°C13.8°C	13.8°C	57	6.9	10.911 h
December	17.0°C8.8°C	8.8°C	51	6.8	10.511 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

Distance from Nanping

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