Climate averages 1991–2020
Dalian weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Dalian: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 23.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 41 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinzhou, China (23 km away). In August its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Dalian, with 138 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dalian ranks joint 729th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 269th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Dalian is 2.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 23.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 140 mm to 51 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Dalian climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.0°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 6.6 | 2.0 | 9.810 h |
| February | 1.6°C-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 10 | 2.0 | 10.711 h |
| March | 5.9°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 15 | 3.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 11.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 36 | 5.4 | 13.213 h |
| May | 17.3°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 59 | 6.0 | 14.314 h |
| June | 22.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 80 | 6.8 | 14.815 h |
| July | 25.7°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 136 | 9.5 | 14.615 h |
| August, selected | 26.5°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 140 | 8.7 | 13.714 h |
| September | 23.2°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 51 | 5.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 33 | 5.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.6°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 28 | 4.7 | 10.110 h |
| December | 3.0°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 12 | 3.2 | 9.59 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
August in nearby cities
- Jinzhou, China in AugustChina · 23 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 23.1°C · 138 mm rain
- Lüshun in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 23.1°C · 135 mm rain
- Pulandian in AugustChina · 62 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.9°C · 163 mm rain
- Wafangdian in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.0°C · 163 mm rain
- Dengzhou, China in AugustChina · 143 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 23.2°C · 129 mm rain
- Zhuanghe in AugustChina · 148 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 21.7°C · 165 mm rain
- Yantai in AugustChina · 160 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 22.9°C · 133 mm rain
- Weihai in AugustChina · 162 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 23.3°C · 131 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 Dalian) is explained once on the Dalian year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.