Climate averages 1991–2020
Quanzhou weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Quanzhou: daytime highs average 17.0°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinjiang (11 km away). In January its highs average 16.4°C, 0.6°C cooler than Quanzhou, with 38 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Quanzhou ranks joint 108th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 556th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Quanzhou is 11.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 17.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 33 mm to 46 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
Quanzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.0°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 33 | 5.0 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.8°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 46 | 7.6 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 80 | 11.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.5°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 93 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 172 | 14.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.3°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 218 | 17.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 175 | 15.2 | 13.514 h |
| August | 31.1°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 245 | 18.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.7°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 123 | 12.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.0°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 52 | 3.8 | 11.612 h |
| November | 23.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 47 | 4.7 | 11.011 h |
| December | 18.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 36 | 4.6 | 10.611 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
- Jinjiang in JanuaryChina · 11 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 10.0°C · 38 mm rain
- Ximeicun in JanuaryChina · 22 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.3°C · 33 mm rain
- Xiamen in JanuaryChina · 70 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 10.0°C · 40 mm rain
- Putian in JanuaryChina · 72 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.8°C · 41 mm rain
- Zhangzhou in JanuaryChina · 104 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.3°C · 35 mm rain
- Fuzhou in JanuaryChina · 147 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 7.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Longyan in JanuaryChina · 159 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 7.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Sanming in JanuaryChina · 177 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.3°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 Quanzhou) is explained once on the Quanzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ximeicun lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.