Wanxian climate

Name: Wanxian
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Wanxian is warmest in August, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 4.8 °C. July is the wettest month (203 mm) and January the driest (41 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Wanxian averages 1,447 mm of rain, 150 days above 25 °C and 1 days below freezing.

China · population 859,662 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month January 4.8 °C
Driest month January 41 mm
Wettest month July 203 mm
Least cloud August 63 % cloud
Hottest on record August 41 °C
Coldest on record December -2.1 °C

What to expectWanxian through the year

Wanxian has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 11 °C in January to 33 °C in August, a swing of 21 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 150 days a year reach 25 °C, 83 of them reach 30 °C, 1 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 203 mm against 41 mm in January — 4.9 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	11.2 °C	41 mm	74 %
February	13.5 °C	51 mm	76 %
March	17.8 °C	96 mm	76 %
April	23.0 °C	136 mm	74 %
May	26.5 °C	171 mm	75 %
June	29.6 °C	191 mm	76 %
July	32.4 °C	203 mm	71 %
August	32.7 °C	158 mm	63 %
September	28.2 °C	148 mm	66 %
October	22.4 °C	124 mm	73 %
November	17.6 °C	83 mm	70 %
December	12.5 °C	45 mm	71 %

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	11.2 °C	4.8 °C	8.2 °C	20.8 °C	-1.4 °C	0	0	1
February	13.5 °C	6.5 °C	10.3 °C	26.1 °C	-0.7 °C	0	0	0
March	17.8 °C	9.9 °C	14.1 °C	32.0 °C	2.6 °C	2	0	0
April	23.0 °C	14.9 °C	19.0 °C	34.0 °C	5.4 °C	10	2	0
May	26.5 °C	19.1 °C	22.8 °C	36.8 °C	12.1 °C	21	6	0
June	29.6 °C	22.8 °C	26.1 °C	37.7 °C	15.1 °C	27	14	0
July	32.4 °C	25.3 °C	28.7 °C	39.3 °C	19.3 °C	31	25	0
August	32.7 °C	25.1 °C	28.8 °C	40.9 °C	19.1 °C	30	24	0
September	28.2 °C	21.1 °C	24.7 °C	40.5 °C	13.2 °C	22	11	0
October	22.4 °C	16.1 °C	19.3 °C	33.9 °C	7.2 °C	8	1	0
November	17.6 °C	11.0 °C	14.5 °C	27.6 °C	3.0 °C	0	0	0
December	12.5 °C	6.2 °C	9.5 °C	20.6 °C	-2.1 °C	0	0	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	41 mm	9	10 h/day	74 %	75 %	7.4 km/h
February	51 mm	10	11 h/day	76 %	74 %	8.0 km/h
March	96 mm	14	12 h/day	76 %	73 %	8.8 km/h
April	136 mm	15	13 h/day	74 %	74 %	8.7 km/h
May	171 mm	16	14 h/day	75 %	76 %	8.3 km/h
June	191 mm	15	14 h/day	76 %	78 %	7.7 km/h
July	203 mm	16	14 h/day	71 %	78 %	7.8 km/h
August	158 mm	14	13 h/day	63 %	74 %	8.0 km/h
September	148 mm	13	12 h/day	66 %	76 %	7.9 km/h
October	124 mm	14	11 h/day	73 %	78 %	7.1 km/h
November	83 mm	11	11 h/day	70 %	77 %	7.4 km/h
December	45 mm	9	10 h/day	71 %	76 %	7.2 km/h

How Wanxian 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
Wanxian	33 °C	4.8 °C	1,447 mm	150
Wanzhou · China	33 °C	5.1 °C	1,465 mm	154
Hanfeng · China	32 °C	4.2 °C	1,388 mm	146
Dazhou · China	32 °C	2.9 °C	1,483 mm	137
Guixi · China	31 °C	4.0 °C	1,525 mm	131
Enshi · China	29 °C	1.9 °C	1,682 mm	120
Fuling · China	32 °C	4.4 °C	1,357 mm	142

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Wanxian’s climate

When is the best time to visit Wanxian?

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, August is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Wanxian get?

In August, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 83 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 41 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 4.8 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 1 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Wanxian?

July, averaging 203 mm over 16 days with rain. The driest month is January with 41 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,447 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 Wanxian 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: 30.816°, 108.374° (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.