Climate averages 1991–2020
Poyang weather
in April.
A warm, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Poyang: daytime highs average 22.6°C and nights cool to about 14.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 243 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 51 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jingdezhen (62 km away). In April its highs average 22.6°C, about as warm as Poyang, with 283 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Poyang ranks joint 249th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 857th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Poyang is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 26.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 243 mm to 277 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
Poyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.1°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 74 | 10.4 | 10.511 h |
| February | 12.8°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 99 | 11.5 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 190 | 15.7 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 22.6°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 243 | 16.1 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.9°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 277 | 15.5 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 404 | 17.7 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.7°C26.8°C | 26.8°C | 231 | 13.2 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.6°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 154 | 13.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 29.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 77 | 8.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 52 | 5.8 | 11.511 h |
| November | 18.4°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 83 | 7.9 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.2°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 55 | 7.4 | 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
- Jingdezhen in AprilChina · 62 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 13.5°C · 283 mm rain
- Jinfeng in AprilChina · 84 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.9°C · 271 mm rain
- Nanchang in AprilChina · 86 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 195 mm rain
- Yingtan in AprilChina · 90 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.6°C · 259 mm rain
- Huayuan in AprilChina · 95 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 14.4°C · 250 mm rain
- Pengze in AprilChina · 101 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 13.4°C · 188 mm rain
- Jiujiang in AprilChina · 102 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 13.8°C · 203 mm rain
- Fuzhou, China in AprilChina · 119 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.6°C · 243 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 Poyang) is explained once on the Poyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.