Climate averages 1991–2020
Shaoshan weather
in April.
A warm, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Shaoshan: daytime highs average 22.1°C and nights cool to about 13.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 185 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes April a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 49 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiangxiang (20 km away). In April its highs average 22.7°C, 0.6°C warmer than Shaoshan, with 212 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoshan ranks joint 325th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 806th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Shaoshan is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 26.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 185 mm to 227 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Shaoshan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 68 | 10.8 | 10.611 h |
| February | 12.0°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 84 | 12.2 | 11.211 h |
| March | 16.1°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 157 | 16.7 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 22.1°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 185 | 16.5 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.2°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 227 | 16.7 | 13.514 h |
| June | 29.0°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 265 | 17.0 | 13.914 h |
| July | 32.4°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 180 | 12.9 | 13.714 h |
| August | 32.0°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 132 | 13.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.3°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 81 | 9.5 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 60 | 7.6 | 11.512 h |
| November | 17.5°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 64 | 8.3 | 10.811 h |
| December | 11.8°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 47 | 7.6 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Xiangxiang in AprilChina · 20 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 212 mm rain
- Xiangtan in AprilChina · 38 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.4°C · 248 mm rain
- Changsha in AprilChina · 54 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.1°C · 236 mm rain
- Loudi in AprilChina · 55 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.5°C · 183 mm rain
- Yongfeng in AprilChina · 62 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.2°C · 200 mm rain
- Zhuzhou in AprilChina · 63 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.6°C · 270 mm rain
- Heshan in AprilChina · 74 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 13.8°C · 183 mm rain
- Gantang in AprilChina · 76 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 13.8°C · 195 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 Shaoshan) is explained once on the Shaoshan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.