Climate averages 1991–2020
Shaoxing weather
in December.
A cool, moderately wet month: the joint 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 Shaoxing: daytime highs average 11.4°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 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 15 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shangyu (28 km away). In December its highs average 11.5°C, about as warm as Shaoxing, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoxing ranks joint 271st of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 845th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Shaoxing is 3.9°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 9.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 83 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
Shaoxing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.0°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 83 | 10.4 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 78 | 10.7 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.7°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 128 | 14.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 138 | 13.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.2°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 171 | 13.2 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.7°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 315 | 17.2 | 14.014 h |
| July | 33.3°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 178 | 13.7 | 13.914 h |
| August | 32.7°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 156 | 16.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.1°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 111 | 12.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.2°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 66 | 6.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 70 | 8.7 | 10.711 h |
| December, selected | 11.4°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 63 | 7.8 | 10.310 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
- Shangyu in DecemberChina · 28 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Xiaoshan in DecemberChina · 36 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Zhuji in DecemberChina · 45 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 3.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Hangzhou in DecemberChina · 52 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 59 mm rain
- Linping in DecemberChina · 54 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 2.9°C · 61 mm rain
- Yuyao in DecemberChina · 55 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Haining in DecemberChina · 60 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 4.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Chóngfú in DecemberChina · 60 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 3.0°C · 59 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 Shaoxing) is explained once on the Shaoxing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.