Climate averages 1991–2020

Shaoyang weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 9.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 57 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Shaoyang: daytime highs average 9.0°C and nights cool to about 2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 38 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lengshuijiang (50 km away). In January its highs average 8.9°C, about as warm as Shaoyang, with 65 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoyang ranks joint 298th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 698th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Shaoyang is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 11.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 72 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Shaoyang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Shaoyang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	9.0°C2.8°C	2.8°C	57	10.5	10.611 h
February	11.7°C4.9°C	4.9°C	72	12.2	11.211 h
March	15.8°C8.5°C	8.5°C	132	17.2	12.012 h
April	21.9°C13.9°C	13.9°C	171	17.2	12.813 h
May	26.1°C18.4°C	18.4°C	226	17.3	13.513 h
June	28.8°C22.1°C	22.1°C	271	19.5	13.814 h
July	31.9°C24.6°C	24.6°C	186	14.5	13.714 h
August	31.5°C24.2°C	24.2°C	141	15.8	13.113 h
September	28.0°C20.5°C	20.5°C	76	10.5	12.312 h
October	23.0°C15.4°C	15.4°C	67	8.3	11.512 h
November	17.2°C9.9°C	9.9°C	65	8.9	10.811 h
December	11.5°C4.6°C	4.6°C	43	7.8	10.510 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

Distance from Shaoyang

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Shaoyang) is explained once on the Shaoyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.