Climate averages 1991–2020
Chenggu weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Chenggu: daytime highs average 27.8°C and nights cool to about 20.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 169 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hanzhong (29 km away). In August its highs average 27.5°C, about as warm as Chenggu, with 182 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chenggu ranks joint 663rd of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 542nd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Chenggu is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.8°C to 23.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 169 mm to 198 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Chenggu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 22 | 5.9 | 10.210 h |
| February | 9.8°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 34 | 7.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 14.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 53 | 9.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 69 | 11.0 | 13.013 h |
| May | 23.6°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 109 | 12.4 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.9°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 137 | 11.6 | 14.314 h |
| July | 28.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 224 | 18.1 | 14.114 h |
| August, selected | 27.8°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 169 | 16.2 | 13.413 h |
| September | 23.0°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 198 | 15.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 18.2°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 121 | 14.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 13.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 68 | 10.1 | 10.510 h |
| December | 8.4°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 27 | 6.2 | 10.010 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Hanzhong in AugustChina · 29 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.7°C · 182 mm rain
- Xixiang in AugustChina · 45 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 21.9°C · 203 mm rain
- Mianyang, China in AugustChina · 59 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 21.0°C · 188 mm rain
- Guozhen in AugustChina · 135 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 20.2°C · 181 mm rain
- Baoji in AugustChina · 136 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 20.1°C · 181 mm rain
- Donghe in AugustChina · 140 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.1°C · 219 mm rain
- Bazhong in AugustChina · 152 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.0°C · 189 mm rain
- Guangyuan in AugustChina · 161 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 21.4°C · 186 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 Chenggu) is explained once on the Chenggu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.