Climate averages 1991–2020
Shijie weather
in January.
A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the joint 2nd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Shijie: daytime highs average 19.0°C and nights cool to about 10.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 53 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dongguan (10 km away). In January its highs average 19.3°C, about as warm as Shijie, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shijie ranks joint 50th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 575th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Shijie is 13.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 20.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 35 mm to 47 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
Shijie climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 19.0°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 35 | 5.3 | 10.911 h |
| February | 20.5°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 47 | 7.8 | 11.411 h |
| March | 23.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 107 | 13.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.6°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 182 | 15.7 | 12.713 h |
| May | 28.9°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 295 | 20.6 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.2°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 381 | 23.7 | 13.514 h |
| July | 31.2°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 245 | 22.8 | 13.413 h |
| August | 31.2°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 291 | 23.1 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.4°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 175 | 15.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.4°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 51 | 6.3 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.9°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 34 | 5.3 | 11.111 h |
| December | 20.4°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 35 | 4.5 | 10.711 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
- Dongguan in JanuaryChina · 10 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 11.1°C · 35 mm rain
- Licheng in JanuaryChina · 22 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 10.0°C · 44 mm rain
- Humen in JanuaryChina · 33 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 11.7°C · 51 mm rain
- Dasha in JanuaryChina · 36 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 10.7°C · 40 mm rain
- Tantou in JanuaryChina · 39 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 12.0°C · 51 mm rain
- Shajing in JanuaryChina · 39 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 12.2°C · 51 mm rain
- Shiqiao in JanuaryChina · 47 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 11.1°C · 41 mm rain
- Luoyang, China in JanuaryChina · 50 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 10.1°C · 45 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 Shijie) is explained once on the Shijie year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Dongguan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.