Climate averages 1991–2020
Rui’an weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Rui’an: daytime highs average 14.1°C and nights cool to about 7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 25 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wenzhou (25 km away). In December its highs average 14.2°C, about as warm as Rui’an, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Rui’an ranks joint 159th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 849th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Rui’an is 6.6°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 11.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 64 mm to 70 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Rui’an climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.8°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 70 | 10.0 | 10.611 h |
| February | 12.7°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 76 | 11.6 | 11.211 h |
| March | 15.3°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 125 | 15.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.6°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 124 | 14.4 | 12.813 h |
| May | 23.8°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 174 | 14.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 27.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 261 | 15.9 | 13.914 h |
| July | 30.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 153 | 13.7 | 13.714 h |
| August | 30.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 228 | 18.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 27.5°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 173 | 14.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.6°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 88 | 7.6 | 11.512 h |
| November | 19.1°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 83 | 9.7 | 10.811 h |
| December, selected | 14.1°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 64 | 8.9 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Wenzhou in DecemberChina · 25 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 6.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Jinxiang in DecemberChina · 39 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.2°C · 60 mm rain
- Fuding in DecemberChina · 66 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 7.3°C · 60 mm rain
- Lishui in DecemberChina · 106 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 53 mm rain
- Songcheng in DecemberChina · 119 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 9.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Taizhou (Zhejiang), China in DecemberChina · 124 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 5.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Fu’an in DecemberChina · 126 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 6.9°C · 50 mm rain
- Guli in DecemberChina · 137 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 4.1°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 Rui’an) is explained once on the Rui’an year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.