Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhalantun weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Zhalantun: daytime highs average 12.1°C and nights cool to about -0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 28 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 37 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Longjiang (82 km away). In April its highs average 13.5°C, 1.4°C warmer than Zhalantun, with 24 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhalantun ranks joint 845th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 111th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Zhalantun is 8.5°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 7.7°C to 19.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 28 mm to 45 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Zhalantun climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.6°C-21.1°C | -21.1°C | 1.9 | 0.6 | 8.99 h |
| February | -6.0°C-17.4°C | -17.4°C | 3.1 | 0.9 | 10.210 h |
| March | 2.5°C-9.4°C | -9.4°C | 8.3 | 2.3 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 12.1°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 28 | 5.0 | 13.614 h |
| May | 19.8°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 45 | 7.5 | 15.115 h |
| June | 24.9°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 103 | 12.1 | 16.016 h |
| July | 26.7°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 155 | 14.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.6°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 117 | 12.1 | 14.314 h |
| September | 18.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 59 | 7.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 9.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 26 | 4.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | -1.9°C-10.1°C | -10.1°C | 6.1 | 2.0 | 9.39 h |
| December | -10.4°C-18.6°C | -18.6°C | 5.5 | 1.9 | 8.58 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Longjiang in AprilChina · 82 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 0.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Hulan Ergi in AprilChina · 112 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 0.0°C · 23 mm rain
- Qiqihar in AprilChina · 118 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 0.1°C · 23 mm rain
- Fuyu (Heilongjiang), China in AprilChina · 131 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Nehe in AprilChina · 166 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low -1.0°C · 27 mm rain
- Yakeshi in AprilChina · 204 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low -3.6°C · 24 mm rain
- Ulanhot in AprilChina · 220 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 0.7°C · 22 mm rain
- Nenjiang in AprilChina · 224 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low -1.8°C · 26 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 Zhalantun) is explained once on the Zhalantun year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.