Chizhou climate

Name: Chizhou
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Chizhou is warmest in July, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 0.3 °C. June is the wettest month (274 mm) and December the driest (40 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Chizhou averages 1,407 mm of rain, 144 days above 25 °C and 31 days below freezing.

China · population 615,274 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 32 °C
Coldest month January 0.3 °C
Driest month December 40 mm
Wettest month June 274 mm
Least cloud December 49 % cloud
Hottest on record August 40 °C
Coldest on record February -13 °C

What to expectChizhou through the year

Chizhou has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 7.9 °C in January to 32 °C in July, a swing of 24 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 144 days a year reach 25 °C, 67 of them reach 30 °C, 31 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 274 mm against 40 mm in December — 6.8 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	7.9 °C	66 mm	59 %
February	10.7 °C	77 mm	63 %
March	15.3 °C	116 mm	69 %
April	21.3 °C	134 mm	68 %
May	25.9 °C	167 mm	69 %
June	28.5 °C	274 mm	76 %
July	31.8 °C	198 mm	70 %
August	31.3 °C	144 mm	62 %
September	27.4 °C	81 mm	56 %
October	22.5 °C	58 mm	51 %
November	16.5 °C	53 mm	51 %
December	10.2 °C	40 mm	49 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	7.9 °C	0.3 °C	4.1 °C	24.5 °C	-12.1 °C	0	0	15
February	10.7 °C	2.5 °C	6.6 °C	25.9 °C	-13.1 °C	0	0	7
March	15.3 °C	6.9 °C	11.1 °C	30.9 °C	-4.5 °C	1	0	1
April	21.3 °C	12.9 °C	17.0 °C	33.6 °C	2.3 °C	7	0	0
May	25.9 °C	18.0 °C	21.9 °C	35.8 °C	10.1 °C	19	4	0
June	28.5 °C	22.1 °C	25.2 °C	35.4 °C	15.4 °C	25	11	0
July	31.8 °C	25.6 °C	28.5 °C	37.7 °C	16.9 °C	30	23	0
August	31.3 °C	25.0 °C	27.9 °C	39.8 °C	17.8 °C	30	21	0
September	27.4 °C	20.5 °C	23.8 °C	37.3 °C	13.2 °C	24	7	0
October	22.5 °C	14.7 °C	18.4 °C	32.8 °C	5.2 °C	8	1	0
November	16.5 °C	8.4 °C	12.3 °C	29.1 °C	-4.2 °C	1	0	1
December	10.2 °C	2.1 °C	6.1 °C	21.8 °C	-10.4 °C	0	0	9

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	66 mm	9	10 h/day	59 %	76 %	14 km/h
February	77 mm	9	11 h/day	63 %	76 %	15 km/h
March	116 mm	12	12 h/day	69 %	76 %	15 km/h
April	134 mm	11	13 h/day	68 %	76 %	15 km/h
May	167 mm	12	14 h/day	69 %	77 %	14 km/h
June	274 mm	15	14 h/day	76 %	81 %	14 km/h
July	198 mm	13	14 h/day	70 %	80 %	14 km/h
August	144 mm	13	13 h/day	62 %	81 %	14 km/h
September	81 mm	9	12 h/day	56 %	78 %	14 km/h
October	58 mm	6	11 h/day	51 %	75 %	13 km/h
November	53 mm	7	11 h/day	51 %	76 %	13 km/h
December	40 mm	6	10 h/day	49 %	74 %	13 km/h

How Chizhou compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Chizhou	32 °C	0.3 °C	1,407 mm	144
Anqing · China	32 °C	0.7 °C	1,570 mm	145
Wuhu · China	32 °C	-0.3 °C	1,358 mm	144
Pengze · China	32 °C	1.6 °C	1,644 mm	146
Xuancheng · China	32 °C	-0.4 °C	1,448 mm	146
Huangshan · China	32 °C	1.2 °C	1,855 mm	145
Hefei · China	32 °C	-1.1 °C	1,113 mm	146

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Chizhou.

QuestionsCommon questions about Chizhou’s climate

When is the best time to visit Chizhou?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. April, May, October sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and December the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Chizhou get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 67 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 0.3 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 31 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Chizhou?

June, averaging 274 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is December with 40 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,407 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Chizhou rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 30.661°, 117.478° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.