Climate averages 1991–2020

Qianjiang (Chongqing), China weather
in January.

A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 7.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 57 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Qianjiang (Chongqing), China: daytime highs average 7.4°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 29 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hanjia (65 km away). In January its highs average 9.1°C, 1.7°C warmer than Qianjiang (Chongqing), China, with 67 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qianjiang (Chongqing), China ranks joint 429th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 698th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Qianjiang (Chongqing), China is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 9.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 70 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Qianjiang (Chongqing), China climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Qianjiang (Chongqing), China, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	7.4°C2.1°C	2.1°C	57	10.7	10.510 h
February	9.8°C4.1°C	4.1°C	70	11.2	11.111 h
March	14.3°C7.7°C	7.7°C	114	15.5	12.012 h
April	19.9°C12.7°C	12.7°C	159	17.3	12.913 h
May	23.9°C17.0°C	17.0°C	204	17.9	13.614 h
June	27.0°C20.5°C	20.5°C	220	18.9	14.014 h
July	29.2°C22.6°C	22.6°C	236	21.0	13.814 h
August	29.3°C22.5°C	22.5°C	173	18.6	13.213 h
September	25.2°C19.1°C	19.1°C	127	13.7	12.412 h
October	19.7°C14.2°C	14.2°C	126	14.3	11.511 h
November	14.7°C9.2°C	9.2°C	85	11.8	10.711 h
December	9.5°C4.0°C	4.0°C	45	9.6	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

Distance from Qianjiang

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Qianjiang) is explained once on the Qianjiang (Chongqing), China year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.