Climate averages 1991–2020
Ordos weather
in April.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 6th 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 Ordos: daytime highs average 15.9°C and nights cool to about 2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 13 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dongsheng (29 km away). In April its highs average 15.1°C, 0.8°C cooler than Ordos, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ordos ranks joint 740th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 58th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Ordos is 4.7°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 6.1°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 23 mm to 33 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Ordos climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.3°C-14.0°C | -14.0°C | 2.9 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 1.3°C-9.7°C | -9.7°C | 5.3 | 1.6 | 10.711 h |
| March | 8.1°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 14 | 3.4 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 15.9°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 23 | 3.9 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.0°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 33 | 4.5 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.7°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 39 | 6.6 | 14.915 h |
| July | 28.1°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 97 | 9.9 | 14.715 h |
| August | 25.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 92 | 9.6 | 13.714 h |
| September | 20.6°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 61 | 7.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 13.6°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 27 | 4.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 5.1°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 13 | 2.2 | 10.010 h |
| December | -2.0°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 9.49 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Dongsheng in AprilChina · 29 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 2.1°C · 24 mm rain
- Baotou in AprilChina · 116 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 0.9°C · 18 mm rain
- Salaqi in AprilChina · 121 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 1.4°C · 25 mm rain
- Shiguai in AprilChina · 129 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 0.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Yulinshi in AprilChina · 146 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 4.9°C · 31 mm rain
- Hohhot in AprilChina · 208 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 0.3°C · 24 mm rain
- Shuozhou in AprilChina · 229 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 0.3°C · 32 mm rain
- Bayan Nur in AprilChina · 239 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 7.8 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 Ordos) is explained once on the Ordos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.