Climate averages 1991–2020
Yong’an weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Yong’an: daytime highs average 9.9°C and nights cool to about 3.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 36 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 23 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wushan (40 km away). In January its highs average 9.8°C, about as warm as Yong’an, with 45 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yong’an ranks joint 244th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 586th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Yong’an is 4.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 12.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 36 mm to 46 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
Yong’an climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 9.9°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 36 | 7.9 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.4°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 46 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.8°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 80 | 12.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 116 | 13.2 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 153 | 13.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 29.0°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 198 | 13.7 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 218 | 16.5 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 148 | 13.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.2°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 130 | 12.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 104 | 11.4 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 73 | 10.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 36 | 8.0 | 10.210 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
- Wushan in JanuaryChina · 40 kmHigh 9.8°C · Low 3.7°C · 45 mm rain
- Chengxiang in JanuaryChina · 43 kmHigh 9.9°C · Low 3.6°C · 33 mm rain
- Yezhou in JanuaryChina · 53 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 1.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Enshi in JanuaryChina · 80 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 2.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Lichuan in JanuaryChina · 99 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -1.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Hanfeng in JanuaryChina · 102 kmHigh 11.0°C · Low 4.9°C · 43 mm rain
- Wanzhou in JanuaryChina · 105 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 5.5°C · 43 mm rain
- Linjiang in JanuaryChina · 118 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 5.3°C · 40 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 Yong’an) is explained once on the Yong’an year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.