Climate averages 1991–2020
Enshi weather
in August.
A hot, 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 hot month in Enshi: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 22.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 159 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 14 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yezhou (41 km away). In August its highs average 29.8°C, about as warm as Enshi, with 131 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Enshi ranks joint 547th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 440th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Enshi is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.0°C to 25.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 159 mm to 147 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
Enshi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 74 | 13.2 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.6°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 84 | 13.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.0°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 121 | 16.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.5°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 162 | 16.3 | 12.913 h |
| May | 24.3°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 196 | 16.7 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.3°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 228 | 16.4 | 14.114 h |
| July | 29.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 229 | 18.9 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 29.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 159 | 15.6 | 13.213 h |
| September | 25.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 147 | 13.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 134 | 14.1 | 11.511 h |
| November | 15.4°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 102 | 13.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.2°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 66 | 12.1 | 10.210 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
- Yezhou in AugustChina · 41 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 131 mm rain
- Lichuan in AugustChina · 61 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 230 mm rain
- Yong’an in AugustChina · 80 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 148 mm rain
- Wushan in AugustChina · 94 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.3°C · 206 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Chongqing), China in AugustChina · 109 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 173 mm rain
- Wanzhou in AugustChina · 116 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 25.3°C · 164 mm rain
- Chengxiang in AugustChina · 122 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 166 mm rain
- Nanbin in AugustChina · 136 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.6°C · 160 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 Enshi) is explained once on the Enshi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.