Climate averages 1991–2020
Poyang 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 Poyang: daytime highs average 10.1°C and nights cool to about 3.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 31 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jingdezhen (62 km away). In January its highs average 10.6°C, 0.6°C warmer than Poyang, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Poyang ranks joint 239th 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; Poyang is 4.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 12.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 74 mm to 99 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
Poyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Jingdezhen in JanuaryChina · 62 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 2.5°C · 83 mm rain
- Jinfeng in JanuaryChina · 84 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 3.7°C · 83 mm rain
- Nanchang in JanuaryChina · 86 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 2.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Yingtan in JanuaryChina · 90 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.6°C · 84 mm rain
- Huayuan in JanuaryChina · 95 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.7°C · 85 mm rain
- Pengze in JanuaryChina · 101 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 1.8°C · 66 mm rain
- Jiujiang in JanuaryChina · 102 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 2.4°C · 73 mm rain
- Fuzhou, China in JanuaryChina · 119 kmHigh 10.7°C · Low 3.4°C · 81 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.