Climate averages 1991–2020
Yancheng weather
in December.
A cool, fairly dry month: the joint 10th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cool month in Yancheng: daytime highs average 9.2°C and nights cool to about 0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 32 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 59 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dazhong (33 km away). In December its highs average 9.1°C, about as warm as Yancheng, with 32 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yancheng ranks joint 439th of 884 for the warmest December highs and joint 558th of 884 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 884 cities is 7.5°C; Yancheng is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 6.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 32 mm to 38 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Yancheng climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.9°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 38 | 5.7 | 10.210 h |
| February | 9.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 39 | 6.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 13.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 57 | 7.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.0°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 66 | 6.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 25.2°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 92 | 8.4 | 13.914 h |
| June | 28.4°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 159 | 10.2 | 14.314 h |
| July | 30.7°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 246 | 16.3 | 14.114 h |
| August | 30.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 186 | 15.5 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.3°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 93 | 8.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 49 | 6.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 15.7°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 52 | 6.1 | 10.510 h |
| December, selected | 9.2°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 32 | 5.0 | 10.010 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
December in nearby cities
- Dazhong in DecemberChina · 33 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 1.5°C · 32 mm rain
- Hede in DecemberChina · 47 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 1.0°C · 27 mm rain
- Xinghua in DecemberChina · 55 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 0.6°C · 32 mm rain
- Dongtai in DecemberChina · 58 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.5°C · 35 mm rain
- Dongkan in DecemberChina · 78 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low -0.1°C · 25 mm rain
- Baoying in DecemberChina · 80 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 0.6°C · 28 mm rain
- Gaoyou in DecemberChina · 92 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.8°C · 33 mm rain
- Jiangyan in DecemberChina · 95 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 36 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 Yancheng) is explained once on the Yancheng year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.