Jingmen climate

Name: Jingmen
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Jingmen is warmest in July, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -0.2 °C. July is the wettest month (220 mm) and December the driest (22 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Jingmen averages 1,178 mm of rain, 146 days above 25 °C and 33 days below freezing.

China · population 632,954 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month January -0.2 °C
Driest month December 22 mm
Wettest month July 220 mm
Least cloud December 49 % cloud
Hottest on record July 39 °C
Coldest on record January -9.3 °C

What to expectJingmen through the year

Jingmen has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 8.6 °C in January to 31 °C in July, a swing of 24 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 146 days a year reach 25 °C, 71 of them reach 30 °C, 33 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 220 mm against 22 mm in December — 10 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	8.6 °C	29 mm	52 %
February	11.4 °C	39 mm	59 %
March	16.0 °C	63 mm	67 %
April	22.0 °C	100 mm	66 %
May	26.3 °C	142 mm	68 %
June	29.4 °C	195 mm	71 %
July	31.2 °C	220 mm	69 %
August	30.8 °C	157 mm	61 %
September	27.1 °C	89 mm	59 %
October	22.2 °C	74 mm	56 %
November	16.1 °C	48 mm	52 %
December	10.5 °C	22 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	8.6 °C	-0.2 °C	4.2 °C	22.8 °C	-9.3 °C	0	0	16
February	11.4 °C	2.2 °C	6.9 °C	25.4 °C	-8.8 °C	0	0	8
March	16.0 °C	6.8 °C	11.4 °C	29.7 °C	-2.6 °C	1	0	1
April	22.0 °C	12.9 °C	17.3 °C	36.1 °C	2.7 °C	9	1	0
May	26.3 °C	17.8 °C	21.9 °C	36.6 °C	9.0 °C	20	6	0
June	29.4 °C	21.9 °C	25.5 °C	38.3 °C	14.1 °C	27	14	0
July	31.2 °C	24.8 °C	27.8 °C	38.5 °C	18.0 °C	30	21	0
August	30.8 °C	24.2 °C	27.2 °C	38.5 °C	15.8 °C	29	21	0
September	27.1 °C	19.8 °C	23.2 °C	35.8 °C	11.2 °C	22	7	0
October	22.2 °C	14.1 °C	17.9 °C	33.9 °C	5.1 °C	8	1	0
November	16.1 °C	7.8 °C	11.8 °C	26.8 °C	-3.0 °C	1	0	1
December	10.5 °C	1.9 °C	6.2 °C	21.6 °C	-9.3 °C	0	0	8

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	29 mm	5	10 h/day	52 %	70 %	15 km/h
February	39 mm	7	11 h/day	59 %	71 %	16 km/h
March	63 mm	9	12 h/day	67 %	72 %	18 km/h
April	100 mm	10	13 h/day	66 %	73 %	18 km/h
May	142 mm	12	14 h/day	68 %	74 %	17 km/h
June	195 mm	12	14 h/day	71 %	79 %	15 km/h
July	220 mm	15	14 h/day	69 %	82 %	16 km/h
August	157 mm	14	13 h/day	61 %	79 %	16 km/h
September	89 mm	9	12 h/day	59 %	74 %	16 km/h
October	74 mm	8	11 h/day	56 %	72 %	15 km/h
November	48 mm	7	11 h/day	52 %	72 %	16 km/h
December	22 mm	4	10 h/day	49 %	70 %	15 km/h

How Jingmen 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
Jingmen	31 °C	-0.2 °C	1,178 mm	146
Jingzhou · China	31 °C	0.5 °C	1,350 mm	148
Yichang · China	31 °C	1.0 °C	1,205 mm	141
Jingling · China	31 °C	-0.3 °C	1,311 mm	152
Xiangyang · China	31 °C	-1.5 °C	952 mm	148
Zaoyang · China	31 °C	-1.7 °C	968 mm	146
Suizhou · China	31 °C	-1.5 °C	1,099 mm	145

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Jingmen’s climate

When is the best time to visit Jingmen?

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 Jingmen get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 71 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -0.2 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 33 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Jingmen?

July, averaging 220 mm over 15 days with rain. The driest month is December with 22 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,178 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 Jingmen 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: 31.034°, 112.205° (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.