Climate averages 1991–2020
Dingxi weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Dingxi: daytime highs average 23.7°C and nights cool to about 13.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 30 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanzhou (89 km away). In August its highs average 27.5°C, 3.8°C warmer than Dingxi, with 100 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dingxi ranks joint 851st of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 91st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Dingxi is 5.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.9°C to 18.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 103 mm to 84 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
Dingxi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.1°C-10.1°C | -10.1°C | 7.3 | 2.9 | 10.010 h |
| February | 2.8°C-8.0°C | -8.0°C | 11 | 3.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 8.9°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 21 | 5.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.4°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 35 | 7.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 19.6°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 56 | 9.6 | 14.014 h |
| June | 23.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 68 | 9.8 | 14.515 h |
| July | 25.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 100 | 12.7 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 23.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 103 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| September | 18.9°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 84 | 11.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 13.3°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 53 | 10.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 7.2°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 14 | 4.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 1.8°C-7.9°C | -7.9°C | 3.6 | 1.4 | 9.810 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
- Lanzhou in AugustChina · 89 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 16.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Luomen in AugustChina · 98 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Pan’an in AugustChina · 101 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Xinxing in AugustChina · 109 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Gangu Chengguanzhen in AugustChina · 113 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 17.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Baiyin in AugustChina · 116 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 15.1°C · 73 mm rain
- Xingguo in AugustChina · 124 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 113 mm rain
- Linxia Chengguanzhen in AugustChina · 128 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 13.0°C · 122 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 Dingxi) is explained once on the Dingxi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.