Climate averages 1991–2020

Deqing weather
in August.

A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 32.0°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 24.8°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 184 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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August is a hot month in Deqing: daytime highs average 32.0°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 15 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hangzhou (34 km away). In August its highs average 32.3°C, about as warm as Deqing, with 140 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Deqing ranks joint 80th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 662nd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Deqing is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 184 mm to 114 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Deqing climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Deqing, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 8.5°C0.6°C0.6°C9010.710.410 h
February 10.9°C2.3°C2.3°C8910.811.111 h
March 15.3°C5.9°C5.9°C13613.712.012 h
April 21.2°C11.1°C11.1°C14512.412.913 h
May 25.8°C16.4°C16.4°C17112.513.714 h
June 28.3°C20.7°C20.7°C33316.514.114 h
July 32.6°C24.9°C24.9°C22615.513.914 h
August, selected 32.0°C24.8°C24.8°C18416.313.313 h
September 27.6°C20.4°C20.4°C11411.012.412 h
October 22.8°C14.5°C14.5°C696.411.511 h
November 17.2°C8.5°C8.5°C738.810.611 h
December 11.0°C2.4°C2.4°C678.010.210 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

Distance from Deqing

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Deqing) is explained once on the Deqing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.