Climate averages 1991–2020

Yangshuo weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 13.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 6.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 82 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Yangshuo: daytime highs average 13.8°C and nights cool to about 6.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 47 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Guilin (59 km away). In January its highs average 12.8°C, 0.9°C cooler than Yangshuo, with 97 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yangshuo ranks joint 150th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 849th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Yangshuo is 7.9°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 16.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 82 mm to 81 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

Yangshuo climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Yangshuo, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	13.8°C6.9°C	6.9°C	82	12.4	10.811 h
February	16.0°C9.1°C	9.1°C	81	13.8	11.311 h
March	19.0°C12.4°C	12.4°C	174	20.3	12.012 h
April	23.9°C17.0°C	17.0°C	227	20.4	12.713 h
May	27.2°C20.7°C	20.7°C	303	21.8	13.313 h
June	29.2°C23.4°C	23.4°C	309	22.2	13.614 h
July	30.8°C24.5°C	24.5°C	194	17.8	13.514 h
August	31.3°C24.4°C	24.4°C	154	16.9	13.013 h
September	29.9°C22.2°C	22.2°C	79	10.5	12.312 h
October	26.4°C17.9°C	17.9°C	67	7.1	11.612 h
November	21.2°C12.9°C	12.9°C	74	8.7	11.011 h
December	15.9°C7.9°C	7.9°C	59	8.7	10.611 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 Yangshuo

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