Climate averages 1991–2020
Shaoguan weather
in January.
A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Shaoguan: daytime highs average 15.0°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maba (13 km away). In January its highs average 15.2°C, about as warm as Shaoguan, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoguan ranks joint 132nd of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 795th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Shaoguan is 9.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 17.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 83 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
Shaoguan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Maba in JanuaryChina · 13 kmHigh 15.2°C · Low 7.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Lecheng in JanuaryChina · 43 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 5.8°C · 58 mm rain
- Shixing in JanuaryChina · 51 kmHigh 14.5°C · Low 6.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Xiongzhou in JanuaryChina · 80 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Lianzhou in JanuaryChina · 122 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 6.5°C · 106 mm rain
- Chenzhou in JanuaryChina · 124 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Qingyuan in JanuaryChina · 134 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 9.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Heyuan in JanuaryChina · 163 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 48 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.