Climate averages 1991–2020
Chongqing weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Chongqing: daytime highs average 32.1°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 147 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 12 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huixing (15 km away). In August its highs average 31.0°C, 1.1°C cooler than Chongqing, with 152 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chongqing ranks joint 71st of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 321st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Chongqing is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.6°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 147 mm to 118 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
Chongqing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 28 | 7.6 | 10.510 h |
| February | 13.3°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 33 | 8.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 72 | 13.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.5°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 117 | 15.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 163 | 16.1 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 173 | 15.6 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 166 | 14.6 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 32.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 147 | 14.2 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.5°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 118 | 12.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 107 | 16.3 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.0°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 72 | 11.6 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.0°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 37 | 8.9 | 10.310 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
- Huixing in AugustChina · 15 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.4°C · 152 mm rain
- Banan in AugustChina · 20 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 24.8°C · 147 mm rain
- Luohuang in AugustChina · 27 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 24.7°C · 150 mm rain
- Beibei in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 25.1°C · 152 mm rain
- Bishan in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 24.8°C · 153 mm rain
- Qinggang in AugustChina · 33 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 24.7°C · 153 mm rain
- Jijiang in AugustChina · 42 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 24.9°C · 149 mm rain
- Degan in AugustChina · 44 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 25.0°C · 149 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 Chongqing) is explained once on the Chongqing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Banan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.