Climate averages 1991–2020
Artux weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the joint 2nd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Artux: daytime highs average 30.9°C and nights cool to about 18.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 14 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a very dry month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kashgar (32 km away). In August its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Artux, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Artux ranks joint 259th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 9th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Artux is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.9°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 14 mm to 17 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Artux climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.6°C-8.3°C | -8.3°C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 4.6°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 7.9 | 1.9 | 10.711 h |
| March | 13.5°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 11 | 2.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.8°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 7.7 | 1.8 | 13.213 h |
| May | 26.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 16 | 2.4 | 14.314 h |
| June | 30.9°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 8.6 | 1.9 | 14.915 h |
| July | 32.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 8.2 | 1.3 | 14.715 h |
| August, selected | 30.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 14 | 2.2 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 17 | 2.8 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 8.5 | 1.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.4°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 4.5 | 1.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 1.1°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 3.9 | 1.1 | 9.49 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Kashgar in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 19.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Shache in AugustChina · 170 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 15 mm rain
- Tumxuk in AugustChina · 247 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 20.8°C · 13 mm rain
- Osh in AugustKyrgyzstan · 302 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 16.0°C · 19 mm rain
- Andijon in AugustUzbekistan · 346 kmHigh 35.3°C · Low 20.3°C · 8.9 mm rain
- Karakol in AugustKyrgyzstan · 361 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.3°C · 95 mm rain
- Quvasoy in AugustUzbekistan · 364 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 19.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Shahrixon in AugustUzbekistan · 367 kmHigh 36.1°C · Low 21.2°C · 8.1 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Artux) is explained once on the Artux year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.