Climate averages 1991–2020

Zhicheng 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 9.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 1.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 43 mm 7 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Zhicheng: daytime highs average 9.1°C and nights cool to about 1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 26 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhijiang (28 km away). In January its highs average 9.0°C, about as warm as Zhicheng, with 38 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhicheng ranks joint 285th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 635th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Zhicheng is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 11.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 43 mm to 54 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

Zhicheng climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Zhicheng, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	9.1°C1.8°C	1.8°C	43	7.2	10.410 h
February	11.8°C3.7°C	3.7°C	54	8.4	11.111 h
March	16.4°C7.5°C	7.5°C	85	11.6	12.012 h
April	22.3°C13.0°C	13.0°C	117	12.0	12.913 h
May	26.6°C17.9°C	17.9°C	171	13.4	13.714 h
June	29.5°C22.0°C	22.0°C	227	13.8	14.114 h
July	31.8°C24.9°C	24.9°C	265	17.2	13.914 h
August	31.2°C24.4°C	24.4°C	188	16.1	13.213 h
September	27.4°C20.2°C	20.2°C	110	10.2	12.412 h
October	22.4°C14.8°C	14.8°C	83	9.8	11.511 h
November	16.8°C9.2°C	9.2°C	60	8.4	10.711 h
December	11.2°C3.9°C	3.9°C	30	6.1	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

Distance from Zhicheng

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