Climate averages 1991–2020
Xunchang weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Xunchang: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 4.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 33 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Changning (24 km away). In January its highs average 10.9°C, 1.5°C warmer than Xunchang, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xunchang ranks joint 267th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 570th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Xunchang is 3.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 34 mm to 33 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
Xunchang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.5°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 34 | 10.0 | 10.611 h |
| February | 12.0°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 33 | 9.2 | 11.211 h |
| March | 16.5°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 52 | 12.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.8°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 71 | 13.8 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.2°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 99 | 14.7 | 13.514 h |
| June | 27.5°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 163 | 17.9 | 13.914 h |
| July | 29.9°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 247 | 21.4 | 13.814 h |
| August | 29.6°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 248 | 20.2 | 13.213 h |
| September | 25.3°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 130 | 15.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.9°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 80 | 16.1 | 11.512 h |
| November | 15.8°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 48 | 10.7 | 10.811 h |
| December | 10.7°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 34 | 9.1 | 10.410 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
- Changning in JanuaryChina · 24 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 6.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Baixi in JanuaryChina · 32 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 5.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Yibin in JanuaryChina · 35 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 5.7°C · 24 mm rain
- Shuifu in JanuaryChina · 36 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 6.2°C · 43 mm rain
- Junlian in JanuaryChina · 37 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 5.2°C · 72 mm rain
- Nanxi in JanuaryChina · 50 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 5.9°C · 33 mm rain
- Gusong in JanuaryChina · 53 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 4.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Xuyong in JanuaryChina · 77 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 4.9°C · 60 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 Xunchang) is explained once on the Xunchang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.