Climate averages 1991–2020

Fenghuang weather
in July.

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

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

Average high 29.7°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 23.0°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 239 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Fenghuang: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 239 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Jishou (45 km away). In July its highs average 31.0°C, 1.3°C warmer than Fenghuang, with 295 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Fenghuang ranks joint 608th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 742nd of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Fenghuang is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 239 mm to 164 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Fenghuang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Fenghuang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	6.7°C0.8°C	0.8°C	93	13.5	10.611 h
February	9.2°C2.9°C	2.9°C	115	14.7	11.211 h
March	13.6°C6.5°C	6.5°C	175	18.5	12.012 h
April	19.6°C11.8°C	11.8°C	231	18.8	12.813 h
May	24.0°C16.4°C	16.4°C	277	18.7	13.514 h
June	27.0°C20.3°C	20.3°C	313	19.2	13.914 h
July, selected	29.7°C23.0°C	23.0°C	239	17.2	13.714 h
August	29.7°C22.6°C	22.6°C	164	15.5	13.113 h
September	26.1°C18.7°C	18.7°C	106	10.8	12.312 h
October	20.2°C13.4°C	13.4°C	116	11.7	11.512 h
November	14.7°C7.9°C	7.9°C	92	11.3	10.811 h
December	9.1°C2.7°C	2.7°C	67	10.4	10.410 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Fenghuang

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 Fenghuang) is explained once on the Fenghuang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.