Climate averages 1991–2020

Xujiang weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 12.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 4.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 78 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Xujiang: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 39 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Qincheng (46 km away). In January its highs average 11.7°C, 0.6°C cooler than Xujiang, with 84 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xujiang ranks 162nd 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; Xujiang is 6.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 14.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 78 mm to 99 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

Xujiang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Xujiang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	12.3°C4.0°C	4.0°C	78	10.1	10.711 h
February	14.9°C6.2°C	6.2°C	99	12.1	11.211 h
March	18.2°C9.9°C	9.9°C	221	17.8	12.012 h
April	23.8°C15.2°C	15.2°C	276	18.1	12.813 h
May	27.5°C19.5°C	19.5°C	322	18.6	13.513 h
June	29.7°C22.9°C	22.9°C	353	19.3	13.814 h
July	33.2°C24.9°C	24.9°C	157	14.1	13.714 h
August	32.8°C24.6°C	24.6°C	166	17.2	13.113 h
September	30.0°C21.7°C	21.7°C	89	10.6	12.312 h
October	25.7°C16.6°C	16.6°C	59	6.2	11.512 h
November	20.0°C11.1°C	11.1°C	82	7.9	10.911 h
December	14.2°C5.3°C	5.3°C	66	7.4	10.510 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 Xujiang

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