Climate averages 1991–2020
Songling weather
in April.
A mild, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in Songling: daytime highs average 20.4°C and nights cool to about 11.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 55 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suzhou (17 km away). In April its highs average 20.3°C, about as warm as Songling, with 119 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Songling ranks joint 548th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 614th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Songling is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.8°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 108 mm to 132 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
Songling climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.2°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 64 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 64 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.7°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 93 | 11.5 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 20.4°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 108 | 10.7 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.2°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 132 | 10.3 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.0°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 274 | 14.2 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.8°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 170 | 13.9 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 159 | 15.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.4°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 91 | 9.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.7°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 51 | 5.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.0°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 55 | 7.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.6°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 43 | 6.3 | 10.210 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
- Suzhou in AprilChina · 17 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 11.7°C · 119 mm rain
- Kunshan in AprilChina · 30 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.7°C · 102 mm rain
- Qingpu in AprilChina · 38 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 10.9°C · 108 mm rain
- Xiayang in AprilChina · 38 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 11.0°C · 108 mm rain
- Taicang in AprilChina · 46 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 10.8°C · 102 mm rain
- Jiaxing in AprilChina · 49 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 11.3°C · 129 mm rain
- Changshu in AprilChina · 50 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.4°C · 96 mm rain
- Songjiang in AprilChina · 51 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 11.1°C · 113 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 Songling) is explained once on the Songling year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.