Climate averages 1991–2020
Dali Old Town weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Dali Old Town: daytime highs average 22.7°C and nights cool to about 16.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 242 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 02 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dali (13 km away). In August its highs average 23.4°C, 0.7°C warmer than Dali Old Town, with 275 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dali Old Town ranks 870th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 772nd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Dali Old Town is 6.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 21.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 242 mm to 183 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
Dali Old Town climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.8°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 23 | 3.8 | 10.711 h |
| February | 16.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 21 | 4.1 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.5°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 27 | 5.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 38 | 6.5 | 12.713 h |
| May | 23.7°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 97 | 10.5 | 13.413 h |
| June | 23.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 163 | 19.0 | 13.714 h |
| July | 22.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 230 | 26.0 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 22.7°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 242 | 26.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 21.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 183 | 22.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.6°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 92 | 13.3 | 11.612 h |
| November | 16.5°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 26 | 4.3 | 10.911 h |
| December | 14.1°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 13 | 2.6 | 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
- Dali in AugustChina · 13 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 16.9°C · 275 mm rain
- Jinniu in AugustChina · 43 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 19.3°C · 199 mm rain
- Xiangcheng in AugustChina · 47 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 202 mm rain
- Micheng in AugustChina · 51 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 17.8°C · 220 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in AugustChina · 61 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.6°C · 179 mm rain
- Baoshan (Yunnan), China in AugustChina · 119 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 17.4°C · 304 mm rain
- Lushui (approximate) in AugustChina · 131 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 296 mm rain
- Lijiang in AugustChina · 131 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 14.4°C · 277 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 Dali Old Town) is explained once on the Dali Old Town year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.