Climate averages 1991–2020

Yibin weather
in January.

A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 10.5°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 5.7°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 24 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Yibin · average highYear overview

January is a cool month in Yibin: daytime highs average 10.5°C and nights cool to about 5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 24 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 32 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Baixi (11 km away). In January its highs average 10.6°C, about as warm as Yibin, with 43 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yibin ranks joint 227th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 473rd of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Yibin is 4.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 13.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 24 mm to 27 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 05101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Yibin climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Yibin, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 10.5°C5.7°C5.7°C248.110.511 h
February 13.2°C7.4°C7.4°C277.911.211 h
March 17.8°C10.9°C10.9°C4310.812.012 h
April 23.1°C15.2°C15.2°C6712.912.813 h
May 26.6°C18.9°C18.9°C9114.013.614 h
June 28.8°C22.0°C22.0°C15216.813.914 h
July 31.0°C24.0°C24.0°C23220.713.814 h
August 30.6°C23.8°C23.8°C23119.313.213 h
September 26.4°C20.8°C20.8°C11915.312.412 h
October 21.0°C16.5°C16.5°C7215.311.511 h
November 16.8°C12.0°C12.0°C409.910.711 h
December 11.7°C7.3°C7.3°C267.610.310 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 Yibin

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