Climate averages 1991–2020
Chuxiong weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Chuxiong: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 187 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 01 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Longquan (74 km away). In August its highs average 25.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Chuxiong, with 202 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chuxiong ranks joint 831st of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 679th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Chuxiong is 5.0°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 23.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 187 mm to 126 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
Chuxiong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 26 | 3.7 | 10.811 h |
| February | 19.4°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 16 | 3.3 | 11.311 h |
| March | 23.1°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 23 | 4.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 39 | 6.1 | 12.713 h |
| May | 26.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 10.6 | 13.313 h |
| June | 25.6°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 166 | 18.3 | 13.714 h |
| July | 24.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 218 | 24.3 | 13.514 h |
| August, selected | 24.3°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 187 | 23.5 | 13.013 h |
| September | 23.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 126 | 18.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.9°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 82 | 13.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 18.5°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 31 | 4.8 | 10.911 h |
| December | 16.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 16 | 3.4 | 10.611 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
- Longquan in AugustChina · 74 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 18.3°C · 202 mm rain
- Jianshui in AugustChina · 90 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.1°C · 287 mm rain
- Anning in AugustChina · 96 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.4°C · 231 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in AugustChina · 96 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.6°C · 179 mm rain
- Haikou, China in AugustChina · 108 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 17.2°C · 235 mm rain
- Xiangcheng in AugustChina · 110 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 202 mm rain
- Majie in AugustChina · 110 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 16.8°C · 238 mm rain
- Micheng in AugustChina · 112 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 17.8°C · 220 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 Chuxiong) is explained once on the Chuxiong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.