Climate averages 1991–2020
Wushan weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Wushan: daytime highs average 9.8°C and nights cool to about 3.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd 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 Yong’an (40 km away). In January its highs average 9.9°C, about as warm as Wushan, with 36 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wushan ranks joint 250th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 650th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Wushan is 4.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 12.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 45 mm to 59 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
Wushan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 45 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 59 | 10.0 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 98 | 13.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.9°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 136 | 14.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.7°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 190 | 15.0 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 261 | 15.6 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 312 | 21.4 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.2°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 206 | 17.7 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.0°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 165 | 13.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 129 | 12.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 85 | 11.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 43 | 8.8 | 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
- Yong’an in JanuaryChina · 40 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 36 mm rain
- Chengxiang in JanuaryChina · 46 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 3.6°C · 33 mm rain
- Yezhou in JanuaryChina · 55 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 1.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Enshi in JanuaryChina · 94 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Lichuan in JanuaryChina · 131 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -1.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Yichang in JanuaryChina · 140 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 1.7°C · 31 mm rain
- Hanfeng in JanuaryChina · 141 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Wanzhou in JanuaryChina · 145 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 5.5°C · 43 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 Wushan) is explained once on the Wushan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.