Climate averages 1991–2020
Dushan weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Dushan: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 20.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 158 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Duyun (48 km away). In August its highs average 27.8°C, 1.1°C warmer than Dushan, with 156 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dushan ranks joint 721st of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 428th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Dushan is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 24.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 158 mm to 112 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
Dushan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.0°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 66 | 14.2 | 10.711 h |
| February | 11.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 67 | 13.8 | 11.311 h |
| March | 15.5°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 123 | 19.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.3°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 169 | 20.1 | 12.813 h |
| May | 23.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 241 | 21.2 | 13.413 h |
| June | 25.2°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 287 | 23.4 | 13.714 h |
| July | 26.4°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 228 | 23.6 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 26.6°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 158 | 19.9 | 13.013 h |
| September | 24.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 112 | 14.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 97 | 12.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 15.8°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 68 | 11.0 | 10.911 h |
| December | 10.8°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 50 | 9.7 | 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
- Duyun in AugustChina · 48 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.0°C · 156 mm rain
- Kaili in AugustChina · 95 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 21.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Guiyang in AugustChina · 117 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Hechi in AugustChina · 138 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.1°C · 230 mm rain
- Liping in AugustChina · 166 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.6°C · 159 mm rain
- Anshun in AugustChina · 166 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 165 mm rain
- Yizhou in AugustChina · 187 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 202 mm rain
- Liuzhi in AugustChina · 215 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 18.0°C · 179 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 Dushan) is explained once on the Dushan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.