Climate averages 1991–2020

Tumxuk weather
in January.

A freezing month with very little precipitation: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high -0.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -8.6°C Night-time mean, January

Precipitation <1 mm Almost no precipitation

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a freezing month in Tumxuk: daytime highs average -0.6°C and nights cool to about -8.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Precipitation is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical January (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 41 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Aqsu (179 km away). In January its highs average -1.9°C, 1.3°C cooler than Tumxuk, with 1.5 mm of precipitation.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tumxuk ranks joint 708th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 5th of 884 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Tumxuk is 6.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 6.2°C to 5.6°C, and monthly precipitation rises from under 1 mm to 2.0 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

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

Tumxuk climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tumxuk, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	-0.6°C-8.6°C	-8.6°C	0.8	0.2	9.710 h
February	5.6°C-4.5°C	-4.5°C	2.0	0.4	10.711 h
March	15.0°C2.3°C	2.3°C	2.9	0.7	11.912 h
April	23.2°C9.9°C	9.9°C	4.2	1.0	13.213 h
May	27.8°C15.2°C	15.2°C	9.2	1.6	14.414 h
June	31.8°C19.6°C	19.6°C	7.8	2.0	14.915 h
July	33.6°C21.9°C	21.9°C	11	2.2	14.715 h
August	32.2°C20.8°C	20.8°C	13	2.9	13.714 h
September	27.4°C15.7°C	15.7°C	7.8	1.6	12.512 h
October	19.5°C8.0°C	8.0°C	2.7	0.6	11.211 h
November	9.5°C-0.1°C	-0.1°C	1.6	0.3	10.010 h
December	0.9°C-6.4°C	-6.4°C	1.3	0.3	9.49 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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 Tumxuk

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