Climate averages 1991–2020
Pingxiang weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Pingxiang: daytime highs average 10.2°C and nights cool to about 3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 36 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xishan (35 km away). In January its highs average 10.6°C, about as warm as Pingxiang, with 86 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Pingxiang ranks joint 236th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 808th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Pingxiang is 4.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 12.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 74 mm to 90 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
Pingxiang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.2°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 74 | 11.0 | 10.611 h |
| February | 12.9°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 90 | 12.5 | 11.211 h |
| March | 16.8°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 200 | 18.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.7°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 279 | 18.8 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.8°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 297 | 18.1 | 13.513 h |
| June | 29.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 334 | 19.5 | 13.914 h |
| July | 32.7°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 185 | 15.9 | 13.714 h |
| August | 32.1°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 182 | 17.2 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.7°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 97 | 11.6 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 66 | 7.8 | 11.512 h |
| November | 18.3°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 86 | 8.8 | 10.811 h |
| December | 12.5°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 55 | 7.7 | 10.410 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
- Xishan in JanuaryChina · 35 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.5°C · 86 mm rain
- Yichun in JanuaryChina · 59 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 3.5°C · 75 mm rain
- Guankou in JanuaryChina · 64 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 3.3°C · 77 mm rain
- Zhuzhou in JanuaryChina · 73 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 3.3°C · 82 mm rain
- Xiangtan in JanuaryChina · 97 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 3.1°C · 77 mm rain
- Changsha in JanuaryChina · 108 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 2.7°C · 74 mm rain
- Xinyu in JanuaryChina · 108 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.7°C · 80 mm rain
- Dunhou in JanuaryChina · 121 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 4.3°C · 62 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 Pingxiang) is explained once on the Pingxiang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.