Climate averages 1991–2020

Danshui, Taiwan weather
in January.

A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 17.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 14.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 78 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Danshui, Taiwan: daytime highs average 17.8°C and nights cool to about 14.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Taipei (16 km away). In January its highs average 17.7°C, about as warm as Danshui, Taiwan, with 87 mm of rain.

Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Danshui, Taiwan ranks joint 19th of 28 for the warmest January highs and 20th of 28 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 28 cities is 19.0°C; Danshui, Taiwan is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 18.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 78 mm to 96 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

Danshui, Taiwan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Danshui, Taiwan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	17.8°C14.3°C	14.3°C	78	13.0	10.811 h
February	18.5°C14.4°C	14.4°C	96	12.6	11.311 h
March	20.9°C16.2°C	16.2°C	113	14.3	12.012 h
April	24.2°C19.4°C	19.4°C	120	13.2	12.713 h
May	27.1°C22.7°C	22.7°C	157	13.6	13.413 h
June	29.5°C25.3°C	25.3°C	158	13.4	13.714 h
July	31.1°C26.8°C	26.8°C	111	11.0	13.514 h
August	30.6°C26.5°C	26.5°C	187	14.3	13.013 h
September	28.7°C25.2°C	25.2°C	169	14.2	12.312 h
October	25.4°C22.8°C	22.8°C	130	11.9	11.612 h
November	22.9°C19.9°C	19.9°C	100	12.6	10.911 h
December	19.4°C16.2°C	16.2°C	83	12.9	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

Distance from Danshui

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