Criora

Climate risk in Yichun

Jiangxi, China

Main risks in Yichun

On heavy rain, Yichun ranks above at least 79% of the world's 626 large cities.

Heavy rain
18 days with 20 mm of rain or more in 2025 [1]
Higher than 79% of the world's large cities; 35th of 135 large cities in China.
For comparison: Kobe 19 days, Surat 19 days, Houston 19 days.
18 days Natural Earth

Days with 20 mm of rain or more in 2025

0 60 days
See the heavy rain days around Yichun on the live map 

This week in Yichun

This week's forecast risk around the city, by day and by hour, and the hazard events near it now. [2]

Open the city on the map

The Earth right now

The Earth's pulse reads the whole world, not this city, so it is the same on every city's page.

Earth's pulse, from 0 to 100. It rises with the number of people in the path of disasters now under way; 90 matches the 2004 tsunami.

Open the live map

Yichun's climate in the 2050s

2041-2060 compared with 1991-2020, if emissions level off [3] [4]

By the 2050s, Yichun is projected to have the climate that Ganzhou (China) has today.

Climate risk in Ganzhou 

+1.7 °C

Mean temperature over the year

+1.4 °C

Average daily high, warmest month

+1.8 °C

Average nightly low, coldest month

+3%

Precipitation over the year

If emissions keep rising, the comparison comes out the same.

Share this comparison

WhatsApp Telegram Viber X Facebook https://criora.com/atlas/CHN/yichun?ref=card

Climates are compared on seasonal temperature and rainfall alone, each difference weighed against the city's usual swings from year to year (the method of Mahony et al. 2017); heat waves, the heat of city streets and the rising sea are left out. 2 of the 3 estimates from the climate models, the middle one and the two ends of their range, point to Ganzhou. [5]

Everything else measured

From the highest among the world's 626 large cities to the lowest.

Hot days in 2025, over 35 °C [1] 27 days higher than 70% of large cities Rank in China (1 = highest): 52 of 135
Tropical nights in 2025, over 20 °C [1] 159 nights higher than 67% of large cities Rank in China (1 = highest): 27 of 135
Warming by 2050, if emissions level off [4] +2.1 °C higher than 61% of large cities Rank in China (1 = highest): 62 of 135
Hottest day of 2025 [1] 36.6 °C higher than 53% of large cities Rank in China (1 = highest): 82 of 135
Water stress [6] Low-Medium: 10 to 20% of the available water drawn the same grade as 12% of large cities; higher than 30%, lower than 58%
Drought risk [6] Medium-High the same grade as 38% of large cities; higher than 12%, lower than 50%
River flood depth, 100-year event [7] Dry at the centre; other districts can flood like 85% of large cities
Earthquake shaking on firm ground, 10% chance in 50 years [8] weak shaking, under 0.01 g
Share of land sinking over 1 cm a year, within 15 km [9] 0% like 80% of large cities
Land burned in an average year [10] 0% like 84% of large cities
Tropical cyclone wind, once in 100 years [11] Too far inland: storms arrive weakened
Share of the land around the centre (a 10 km square) that a 100-year flood from the sea puts under 0.5 m of water or more [7] Far from the sea: no coastal flooding
  • Flood depth is given for one 1 km square at the city centre, in today's climate.
  • Earthquake shaking is given for firm ground in g, the acceleration of gravity: around 0.1 g shaking is strong and can cause light damage, on the US Geological Survey's scale. The figure is the typical value over all the land within 15 km of the centre, not that of one point. Soft ground, such as an old lake bed or river silt, shakes harder.
  • Land subsidence comes from a model of satellite radar measurements from 2013 to 2019 in 2 km squares, read over all the land within 15 km of the centre rather than at one point.
  • Water stress is the share of the available water drawn every year. Drought risk is how often droughts come, against the area's own usual rain, and how many people and how much farmland they would reach. Both are graded on WRI's own scale.
  • If emissions level off: the IPCC's SSP2-4.5 scenario.
  • Water stress and drought risk have no rank in the country: they are steps of a scale, and many cities share one.
  • Tsunamis and landslides are not rated for a single city here.

The nearest large cities

Distance from centre to centre.

Large cities in China

Climate risk in China 

Sources

  1. ERA5 Single Levels Daily Statistics: heavy rain, hot days, nights, hottest day
  2. Environment and Climate Change Canada: Global Deterministic Prediction System (GDPS): the week's forecast map
  3. TerraClimate: the 2050s comparison
  4. NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6): the 2050s comparison, warming
  5. Mahony, Cannon, Wang and Aitken (2017). A closer look at novel climates: new methods and insights at continental to landscape scales. Global Change Biology 23, 3934-3955: how climates are compared
  6. Aqueduct 4.0 Water Risk Framework: water stress, drought risk
  7. Aqueduct Floods Hazard Maps: river flood depth, coastal floods
  8. GSHAP Global Seismic Hazard Map: earthquake shaking
  9. Global Land Subsidence Mapping Reveals Widespread Loss of Aquifer Storage Capacity: sinking land
  10. Global Biomass Burning at 500 m (GFED500): burned land
  11. IRIS: the Imperial College Storm Model dataset: tropical cyclone wind

About these sources 

Cite or embed

Cite this page

In a line

Source: Criora (criora.com), based on ECMWF, ECCC, TerraClimate, NEX-GDDP-CMIP6, WRI, GSHAP, HydroShare, GFED500, IRIS

APA

Criora. (2026). Yichun, China: climate risk profile [Data set]. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://criora.com/atlas/CHN/yichun

BibTeX

@misc{criora_atlas_CHN_yichun_2026,
  author = {{Criora}},
  title = {Yichun, China: climate risk profile},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://criora.com/atlas/CHN/yichun},
  urldate = {2026-11-04}
}

The figures may be reused on the terms of their sources, which this page names.

Embed on your site

Free, no account needed. The widget has no script and shows the figures of this page. Keep its link to the source.