Daye climate

Name: Daye
Address: CN

Daye is warmest in July, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 1.2 °C. June is the wettest month (277 mm) and December the driest (41 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Daye averages 1,575 mm of rain, 152 days above 25 °C and 22 days below freezing.

China · population 347,406 · 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 1.2 °C
Driest month December 41 mm
Wettest month June 277 mm
Least cloud December 51 % cloud
Hottest on record August 40 °C
Coldest on record December -9.5 °C

What to expectDaye through the year

Daye has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 8.9 °C in January to 32 °C in July, a swing of 24 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 152 days a year reach 25 °C, 76 of them reach 30 °C, 22 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 40 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 277 mm against 41 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	8.9 °C	64 mm	61 %
February	11.6 °C	87 mm	65 %
March	16.1 °C	139 mm	70 %
April	22.1 °C	171 mm	70 %
May	26.4 °C	195 mm	70 %
June	29.1 °C	277 mm	75 %
July	32.3 °C	237 mm	71 %
August	31.8 °C	145 mm	62 %
September	28.1 °C	93 mm	55 %
October	23.0 °C	67 mm	53 %
November	17.0 °C	59 mm	53 %
December	11.1 °C	41 mm	51 %

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	8.9 °C	1.2 °C	5.2 °C	24.4 °C	-7.0 °C	0	0	11
February	11.6 °C	3.6 °C	7.8 °C	26.8 °C	-5.9 °C	0	0	5
March	16.1 °C	7.9 °C	12.0 °C	31.9 °C	-2.1 °C	1	0	0
April	22.1 °C	13.8 °C	17.8 °C	34.1 °C	2.9 °C	8	1	0
May	26.4 °C	18.7 °C	22.4 °C	36.2 °C	10.2 °C	21	5	0
June	29.1 °C	22.6 °C	25.7 °C	35.8 °C	15.5 °C	27	13	0
July	32.3 °C	25.9 °C	28.9 °C	38.4 °C	19.5 °C	30	24	0
August	31.8 °C	25.3 °C	28.4 °C	39.7 °C	18.0 °C	30	23	0
September	28.1 °C	21.1 °C	24.4 °C	37.4 °C	13.3 °C	24	9	0
October	23.0 °C	15.4 °C	19.0 °C	35.2 °C	6.1 °C	9	1	0
November	17.0 °C	9.1 °C	12.9 °C	29.7 °C	-2.1 °C	1	0	0
December	11.1 °C	3.0 °C	7.1 °C	22.4 °C	-9.5 °C	0	0	6

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	64 mm	9	10 h/day	61 %	76 %	11 km/h
February	87 mm	10	11 h/day	65 %	76 %	12 km/h
March	139 mm	14	12 h/day	70 %	76 %	13 km/h
April	171 mm	13	13 h/day	70 %	77 %	13 km/h
May	195 mm	14	14 h/day	70 %	78 %	13 km/h
June	277 mm	16	14 h/day	75 %	82 %	12 km/h
July	237 mm	16	14 h/day	71 %	80 %	12 km/h
August	145 mm	15	13 h/day	62 %	80 %	12 km/h
September	93 mm	9	12 h/day	55 %	77 %	11 km/h
October	67 mm	7	11 h/day	53 %	74 %	11 km/h
November	59 mm	8	11 h/day	53 %	75 %	12 km/h
December	41 mm	7	10 h/day	51 %	74 %	12 km/h

How Daye 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
Daye	32 °C	1.2 °C	1,575 mm	152
Huangshi · China	32 °C	1.4 °C	1,513 mm	153
E’zhou · China	32 °C	1.0 °C	1,456 mm	152
Wuxue · China	32 °C	1.5 °C	1,565 mm	150
Xianning · China	32 °C	1.0 °C	1,553 mm	155
Wuhan · China	32 °C	0.6 °C	1,462 mm	153
Jiujiang · China	32 °C	1.9 °C	1,765 mm	147

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Daye’s climate

When is the best time to visit Daye?

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 Daye get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 76 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 1.2 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 22 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Daye?

June, averaging 277 mm over 16 days with rain. The driest month is December with 41 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,575 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 Daye 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
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.