Climate averages 1991–2020
Dongsheng weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd 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 Dongsheng: daytime highs average 25.0°C and nights cool to about 15.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ordos (29 km away). In August its highs average 25.7°C, 0.7°C warmer than Dongsheng, with 92 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dongsheng ranks joint 809th of 884 for the warmest August highs and 73rd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Dongsheng is 4.3°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 19.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 95 mm to 64 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
Dongsheng climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -4.0°C-13.8°C | -13.8°C | 2.9 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 0.5°C-9.9°C | -9.9°C | 5.2 | 1.7 | 10.711 h |
| March | 7.3°C-4.2°C | -4.2°C | 15 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 24 | 4.1 | 13.213 h |
| May | 21.2°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 34 | 5.0 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 45 | 8.1 | 14.915 h |
| July | 27.4°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 103 | 11.1 | 14.715 h |
| August, selected | 25.0°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 95 | 10.7 | 13.714 h |
| September | 19.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 64 | 8.1 | 12.512 h |
| October | 12.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 27 | 4.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 4.4°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 12 | 2.3 | 10.010 h |
| December | -2.7°C-11.5°C | -11.5°C | 2.8 | 0.9 | 9.49 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
- Ordos in AugustChina · 29 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 15.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Salaqi in AugustChina · 93 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 94 mm rain
- Baotou in AugustChina · 94 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 15.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Shiguai in AugustChina · 102 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 14.5°C · 86 mm rain
- Yulinshi in AugustChina · 171 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.4°C · 102 mm rain
- Hohhot in AugustChina · 180 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 14.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Shuozhou in AugustChina · 217 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 14.7°C · 130 mm rain
- Bayan Nur in AugustChina · 243 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 17.1°C · 49 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 Dongsheng) is explained once on the Dongsheng year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.