Climate averages 1991–2020
Ningbo weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Ningbo: daytime highs average 20.2°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 129 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes April a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 52 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fenghua (28 km away). In April its highs average 20.5°C, about as warm as Ningbo, with 127 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ningbo ranks joint 567th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 681st of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Ningbo is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 129 mm to 162 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Ningbo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.1°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 88 | 11.0 | 10.510 h |
| February | 10.9°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 80 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.7°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 130 | 13.8 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 20.2°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 129 | 12.8 | 12.913 h |
| May | 24.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 162 | 12.6 | 13.614 h |
| June | 27.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 292 | 17.3 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.1°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 158 | 13.9 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 175 | 16.2 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.2°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 153 | 13.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 90 | 7.5 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.6°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 79 | 9.7 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.6°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 75 | 8.4 | 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
- Fenghua in AprilChina · 28 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 11.6°C · 127 mm rain
- Yuyao in AprilChina · 43 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 11.6°C · 125 mm rain
- Cixi in AprilChina · 44 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 11.8°C · 117 mm rain
- Zhoushan in AprilChina · 64 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 12.6°C · 131 mm rain
- Shangyu in AprilChina · 67 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 11.6°C · 131 mm rain
- Shenjiamen in AprilChina · 73 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 12.5°C · 131 mm rain
- Shaoxing in AprilChina · 95 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 11.9°C · 138 mm rain
- Jinshan in AprilChina · 109 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 11.7°C · 118 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 Ningbo) is explained once on the Ningbo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.