Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhongshu weather
in January.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 11th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Zhongshu: daytime highs average 14.6°C and nights cool to about 5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 48 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Miyang (35 km away). In January its highs average 17.0°C, 2.4°C warmer than Zhongshu, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhongshu ranks joint 139th of 884 for the warmest January highs and joint 515th of 884 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 884 cities is 5.9°C; Zhongshu is 8.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 17.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 29 mm to 23 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Zhongshu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 14.6°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 29 | 5.1 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.7°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 23 | 4.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 22.0°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 38 | 6.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.6°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 56 | 9.3 | 12.713 h |
| May | 25.2°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 112 | 13.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 24.8°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 213 | 21.9 | 13.614 h |
| July | 24.3°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 223 | 24.6 | 13.513 h |
| August | 24.1°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 197 | 23.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 22.5°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 117 | 17.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 65 | 11.9 | 11.612 h |
| November | 17.4°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 25 | 4.3 | 11.011 h |
| December | 14.2°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 18 | 3.3 | 10.611 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
- Miyang in JanuaryChina · 35 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 7.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Kaiyuan (Yunnan), China in JanuaryChina · 102 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 8.3°C · 18 mm rain
- Qujing in JanuaryChina · 108 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 3.5°C · 41 mm rain
- Kunming in JanuaryChina · 121 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 5.5°C · 35 mm rain
- Haikou, China in JanuaryChina · 124 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 6.4°C · 27 mm rain
- Yuxi in JanuaryChina · 125 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 7.1°C · 30 mm rain
- Majie in JanuaryChina · 128 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 5.6°C · 35 mm rain
- Xingyi in JanuaryChina · 132 kmHigh 13.0°C · Low 4.7°C · 54 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 Zhongshu) is explained once on the Zhongshu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.