Climate averages 1991–2020

Songling weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high 8.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 1.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 64 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Songling: daytime highs average 8.2°C and nights cool to about 1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 22 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Suzhou (17 km away). In January its highs average 8.0°C, about as warm as Songling, with 78 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Songling ranks joint 379th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 749th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Songling is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 10.4°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 64 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

Songling climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Songling, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	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	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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Songling

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 Songling) is explained once on the Songling year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.