Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanqiao weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Nanqiao: daytime highs average 8.5°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 23 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fengxiang (7 km away). In January its highs average 8.4°C, about as warm as Nanqiao, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanqiao ranks joint 352nd of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 749th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Nanqiao is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 10.0°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 64 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
Nanqiao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.5°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 64 | 8.7 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 64 | 9.1 | 11.111 h |
| March | 13.6°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 100 | 11.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.8°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 110 | 10.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 23.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 133 | 10.6 | 13.714 h |
| June | 26.6°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 275 | 14.9 | 14.114 h |
| July | 30.7°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 143 | 12.3 | 13.914 h |
| August | 30.5°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 149 | 14.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 104 | 10.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.4°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 62 | 6.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.2°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 55 | 7.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 47 | 6.8 | 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
- Fengxiang in JanuaryChina · 7 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 2.5°C · 81 mm rain
- Jinshan in JanuaryChina · 17 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 2.2°C · 70 mm rain
- Xinqiao in JanuaryChina · 21 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Minhang in JanuaryChina · 23 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 1.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Songjiang in JanuaryChina · 25 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 66 mm rain
- Zhujing in JanuaryChina · 28 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 1.5°C · 66 mm rain
- Xuhui in JanuaryChina · 31 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 1.2°C · 63 mm rain
- Shanghai in JanuaryChina · 34 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.5°C · 63 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 Nanqiao) is explained once on the Nanqiao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.