Climate averages 1991–2020
Shaoguan weather
in December.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a mild month in Shaoguan: daytime highs average 16.9°C and nights cool to about 8.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes December a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 38 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maba (13 km away). In December its highs average 17.0°C, about as warm as Shaoguan, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoguan ranks joint 123rd of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 794th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Shaoguan is 9.3°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.9°C to 15.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 mm to 72 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
Shaoguan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.0°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 72 | 9.7 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.0°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 83 | 11.9 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 177 | 17.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.6°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 225 | 18.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.7°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 306 | 21.1 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.7°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 333 | 23.0 | 13.614 h |
| July | 31.6°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 186 | 19.5 | 13.514 h |
| August | 31.9°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 208 | 19.9 | 13.013 h |
| September | 30.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 137 | 12.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.2°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 63 | 6.8 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.1°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 69 | 7.7 | 11.011 h |
| December, selected | 16.9°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 55 | 7.5 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Maba in DecemberChina · 13 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 8.3°C · 55 mm rain
- Lecheng in DecemberChina · 43 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 6.7°C · 47 mm rain
- Shixing in DecemberChina · 51 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 7.2°C · 46 mm rain
- Xiongzhou in DecemberChina · 80 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 7.4°C · 47 mm rain
- Lianzhou in DecemberChina · 122 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 7.6°C · 74 mm rain
- Chenzhou in DecemberChina · 124 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 5.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Qingyuan in DecemberChina · 134 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 10.5°C · 55 mm rain
- Heyuan in DecemberChina · 163 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.9°C · 36 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 Shaoguan) is explained once on the Shaoguan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Maba lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.