Climate averages 1991–2020
Suzhou weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Suzhou: daytime highs average 8.0°C and nights cool to about 1.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 21 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Songling (17 km away). In January its highs average 8.2°C, about as warm as Suzhou, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Suzhou ranks joint 395th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 827th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Suzhou is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 10.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 78 mm to 82 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
Suzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 78 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 82 | 9.5 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.5°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 116 | 12.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.3°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 119 | 10.8 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 142 | 10.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.9°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 275 | 14.0 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.6°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 171 | 13.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.3°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 160 | 14.3 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.3°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 95 | 9.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.5°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 62 | 6.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 67 | 8.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 55 | 6.9 | 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
- Songling in JanuaryChina · 17 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 1.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Kunshan in JanuaryChina · 35 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 0.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Changshu in JanuaryChina · 41 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low -0.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Wuxi in JanuaryChina · 41 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 0.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Taicang in JanuaryChina · 50 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 0.8°C · 63 mm rain
- Qingpu in JanuaryChina · 52 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 0.8°C · 65 mm rain
- Xiayang in JanuaryChina · 52 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 0.8°C · 65 mm rain
- Jiading in JanuaryChina · 62 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.0°C · 61 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 Suzhou) is explained once on the Suzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.