Climate averages 1991–2020

Artux weather
in July.

A hot, very dry month: the warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 32.9°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 19.8°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 8.2 mm 1 day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Artux · average highYear overview

July is a hot month in Artux: daytime highs average 32.9°C and nights cool to about 19.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 8.2 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes July a very dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 41 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kashgar (32 km away). In July its highs average 33.2°C, about as warm as Artux, with 16 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Artux ranks joint 49th of 884 for the warmest July highs and 4th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Artux is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 30.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 8.2 mm to 14 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Artux, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -0.6°C-8.3°C-8.3°C3.11.09.710 h
February 4.6°C-5.4°C-5.4°C7.91.910.711 h
March 13.5°C0.5°C0.5°C112.211.912 h
April 21.8°C7.5°C7.5°C7.71.813.213 h
May 26.5°C12.7°C12.7°C162.414.314 h
June 30.9°C17.1°C17.1°C8.61.914.915 h
July, selected 32.9°C19.8°C19.8°C8.21.314.715 h
August 30.9°C18.7°C18.7°C142.213.714 h
September 26.0°C13.4°C13.4°C172.812.512 h
October 18.5°C6.3°C6.3°C8.51.711.211 h
November 9.4°C-0.1°C-0.1°C4.51.110.010 h
December 1.1°C-6.0°C-6.0°C3.91.19.49 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Artux

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 limits

How 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.