Climate averages 1991–2020
Yantai weather
in January.
A cold, very dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Yantai: daytime highs average 2.1°C and nights cool to about -3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 13 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes January a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 54 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhuangyuan (57 km away). In January its highs average 2.1°C, about as warm as Yantai, with 9.4 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yantai ranks joint 656th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 372nd of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Yantai is 3.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 4.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 13 mm to 17 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
Yantai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 2.1°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 13 | 3.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.3°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 17 | 2.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 9.6°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 21 | 3.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.5°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 40 | 4.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 22.4°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 63 | 5.9 | 14.214 h |
| June | 26.7°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 73 | 6.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 28.8°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 161 | 10.7 | 14.514 h |
| August | 28.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 133 | 10.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 56 | 5.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.8°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 34 | 4.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 37 | 5.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 4.6°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 22 | 5.2 | 9.610 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
- Zhuangyuan in JanuaryChina · 57 kmHigh 2.1°C · Low -4.8°C · 9.4 mm rain
- Tianfu in JanuaryChina · 59 kmHigh 2.2°C · Low -3.6°C · 12 mm rain
- Weihai in JanuaryChina · 59 kmHigh 2.0°C · Low -1.6°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Dengzhou, China in JanuaryChina · 70 kmHigh 1.6°C · Low -1.8°C · 13 mm precipitation
- Dongcun in JanuaryChina · 82 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -3.3°C · 11 mm rain
- Laiyang in JanuaryChina · 85 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -4.7°C · 8.9 mm rain
- Zhaoyuan (Shandong), China in JanuaryChina · 92 kmHigh 2.3°C · Low -4.6°C · 8.8 mm rain
- Yatou in JanuaryChina · 95 kmHigh 2.7°C · Low -3.0°C · 14 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 Yantai) is explained once on the Yantai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.