Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhaodong weather
in April.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Zhaodong: daytime highs average 13.2°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 26 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanxi (Heilongjiang), China (34 km away). In April its highs average 13.0°C, about as warm as Zhaodong, with 28 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhaodong ranks joint 813th of 884 for the warmest April highs and joint 88th of 884 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 884 cities is 20.6°C; Zhaodong is 7.4°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 7.5°C to 20.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 26 mm to 55 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
Zhaodong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -12.8°C-22.8°C | -22.8°C | 3.1 | 0.8 | 9.19 h |
| February | -6.6°C-18.1°C | -18.1°C | 4.2 | 1.3 | 10.310 h |
| March | 3.1°C-8.4°C | -8.4°C | 12 | 3.0 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 13.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 26 | 4.8 | 13.514 h |
| May | 20.7°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 55 | 8.2 | 14.915 h |
| June | 26.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 93 | 11.9 | 15.716 h |
| July | 27.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 133 | 13.7 | 15.415 h |
| August | 25.8°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 120 | 12.0 | 14.214 h |
| September | 20.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 61 | 8.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 11.7°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 34 | 6.1 | 11.011 h |
| November | -0.4°C-8.5°C | -8.5°C | 13 | 3.0 | 9.510 h |
| December | -10.7°C-19.5°C | -19.5°C | 6.6 | 2.1 | 8.79 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
- Lanxi (Heilongjiang), China in AprilChina · 34 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 0.3°C · 28 mm rain
- Hulan in AprilChina · 51 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 0.5°C · 27 mm rain
- Harbin in AprilChina · 63 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 0.4°C · 30 mm rain
- Zhaozhou in AprilChina · 66 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 0.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Anda in AprilChina · 67 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 0.3°C · 25 mm rain
- Shuangcheng in AprilChina · 80 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 0.8°C · 28 mm rain
- Longfeng in AprilChina · 84 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 0.2°C · 24 mm rain
- Zhaoyuan (Heilongjiang), China in AprilChina · 90 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 0.8°C · 21 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 Zhaodong) is explained once on the Zhaodong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.