Climate averages 1991–2020
Zaoyang weather
in April.
A warm, moderately wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Zaoyang: daytime highs average 22.3°C and nights cool to about 11.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 57 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiangyang (58 km away). In April its highs average 22.5°C, about as warm as Zaoyang, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zaoyang ranks joint 290th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 478th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Zaoyang is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 66 mm to 100 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Zaoyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.4°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 19 | 3.9 | 10.310 h |
| February | 11.4°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 27 | 5.1 | 11.011 h |
| March | 16.2°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 47 | 6.8 | 12.012 h |
| April, selected | 22.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 66 | 8.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.8°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 100 | 9.5 | 13.814 h |
| June | 30.1°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 146 | 9.5 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.3°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 203 | 14.3 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.5°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 163 | 13.2 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.9°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 82 | 8.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 61 | 6.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.1°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 39 | 6.1 | 10.511 h |
| December | 10.3°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 17 | 3.5 | 10.110 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
April in nearby cities
- Xiangyang in AprilChina · 58 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 11.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Tanghe in AprilChina · 63 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 11.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Suizhou in AprilChina · 74 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 11.6°C · 94 mm rain
- Xihe in AprilChina · 83 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 11.7°C · 94 mm rain
- Dengzhou in AprilChina · 88 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 11.2°C · 52 mm rain
- Nanzhang Chengguanzhen in AprilChina · 95 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 11.6°C · 79 mm rain
- Nanyang in AprilChina · 100 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 10.9°C · 51 mm rain
- Laohekou in AprilChina · 106 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 11.6°C · 55 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 Zaoyang) is explained once on the Zaoyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.