Climate averages 1991–2020

Yongfeng weather
in January.

A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 9.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 3.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 64 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Yongfeng: daytime highs average 9.6°C and nights cool to about 3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 37 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gantang (19 km away). In January its highs average 9.2°C, about as warm as Yongfeng, with 61 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yongfeng ranks joint 258th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 749th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Yongfeng is 3.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 12.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 64 mm to 79 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

Yongfeng climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Yongfeng, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	9.6°C3.1°C	3.1°C	64	10.7	10.611 h
February	12.3°C5.2°C	5.2°C	79	11.9	11.211 h
March	16.3°C8.8°C	8.8°C	157	17.5	12.012 h
April	22.4°C14.2°C	14.2°C	200	17.4	12.813 h
May	26.6°C18.7°C	18.7°C	252	16.9	13.513 h
June	29.4°C22.6°C	22.6°C	295	18.1	13.814 h
July	32.7°C25.7°C	25.7°C	178	13.5	13.714 h
August	32.3°C25.1°C	25.1°C	135	14.6	13.113 h
September	28.4°C21.1°C	21.1°C	83	9.8	12.312 h
October	23.5°C15.9°C	15.9°C	68	7.9	11.512 h
November	17.7°C10.1°C	10.1°C	73	8.9	10.811 h
December	12.0°C4.8°C	4.8°C	48	7.7	10.410 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 Yongfeng

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