Enshi climate

Name: Enshi
Address: CN

Enshi is warmest in August, with average highs of 29 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 1.9 °C. June is the wettest month (230 mm) and December the driest (63 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Enshi averages 1,682 mm of rain, 120 days above 25 °C and 11 days below freezing.

China · population 279,185 · 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 August 29 °C
Coldest month January 1.9 °C
Driest month December 63 mm
Wettest month June 230 mm
Least cloud August 65 % cloud
Hottest on record August 35 °C
Coldest on record December -15 °C

What to expectEnshi through the year

Enshi has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 8.2 °C in January to 29 °C in August, a swing of 21 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 120 days a year reach 25 °C, 38 of them reach 30 °C, 11 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. June averages 230 mm against 63 mm in December — 3.7 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	8.2 °C	70 mm	72 %
February	10.5 °C	81 mm	78 %
March	14.9 °C	117 mm	79 %
April	20.4 °C	161 mm	77 %
May	24.2 °C	195 mm	77 %
June	27.3 °C	230 mm	77 %
July	29.4 °C	226 mm	74 %
August	29.4 °C	158 mm	65 %
September	25.5 °C	148 mm	67 %
October	20.1 °C	135 mm	72 %
November	15.3 °C	99 mm	69 %
December	10.2 °C	63 mm	67 %

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	8.2 °C	1.9 °C	5.3 °C	18.2 °C	-8.9 °C	0	0	7
February	10.5 °C	3.8 °C	7.5 °C	21.2 °C	-8.7 °C	0	0	2
March	14.9 °C	7.4 °C	11.5 °C	27.1 °C	-3.5 °C	0	0	0
April	20.4 °C	12.7 °C	16.7 °C	31.7 °C	2.2 °C	5	0	0
May	24.2 °C	17.2 °C	20.7 °C	32.4 °C	9.6 °C	14	1	0
June	27.3 °C	20.7 °C	24.0 °C	34.0 °C	13.7 °C	23	5	0
July	29.4 °C	22.9 °C	25.9 °C	35.2 °C	16.7 °C	29	13	0
August	29.4 °C	22.6 °C	25.9 °C	35.3 °C	15.5 °C	28	15	0
September	25.5 °C	19.0 °C	22.3 °C	34.7 °C	10.3 °C	18	3	0
October	20.1 °C	13.9 °C	17.1 °C	32.3 °C	3.8 °C	3	0	0
November	15.3 °C	8.8 °C	12.2 °C	24.7 °C	0.3 °C	0	0	0
December	10.2 °C	3.7 °C	7.1 °C	18.8 °C	-15.2 °C	0	0	2

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	70 mm	13	10 h/day	72 %	78 %	6.2 km/h
February	81 mm	14	11 h/day	78 %	78 %	6.7 km/h
March	117 mm	16	12 h/day	79 %	77 %	7.5 km/h
April	161 mm	17	13 h/day	77 %	77 %	7.8 km/h
May	195 mm	17	14 h/day	77 %	77 %	7.5 km/h
June	230 mm	16	14 h/day	77 %	79 %	7.3 km/h
July	226 mm	18	14 h/day	74 %	82 %	8.3 km/h
August	158 mm	15	13 h/day	65 %	78 %	7.7 km/h
September	148 mm	14	12 h/day	67 %	78 %	7.0 km/h
October	135 mm	14	11 h/day	72 %	78 %	6.0 km/h
November	99 mm	13	11 h/day	69 %	78 %	6.1 km/h
December	63 mm	12	10 h/day	67 %	77 %	6.2 km/h

How Enshi 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
Enshi	29 °C	1.9 °C	1,682 mm	120
Wanzhou · China	33 °C	5.1 °C	1,465 mm	154
Wanxian · China	33 °C	4.8 °C	1,447 mm	150
Hanfeng · China	32 °C	4.2 °C	1,388 mm	146
Zhangjiajie · China	31 °C	2.1 °C	1,890 mm	140
Yichang · China	31 °C	1.0 °C	1,205 mm	141
Guixi · China	31 °C	4.0 °C	1,525 mm	131

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Enshi’s climate

When is the best time to visit Enshi?

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

How hot does Enshi get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 29 °C. About 38 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 35 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 1.9 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 11 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Enshi?

June, averaging 230 mm over 16 days with rain. The driest month is December with 63 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,682 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 Enshi 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: 30.300°, 109.483° (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.