Climate averages 1991–2020
Fuzhou weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Fuzhou: daytime highs average 31.5°C and nights cool to about 25.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 240 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th 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 Ningde (70 km away). In August its highs average 31.9°C, about as warm as Fuzhou, with 287 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Fuzhou ranks joint 134th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 769th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Fuzhou is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.7°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 240 mm to 165 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
Fuzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.3°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 57 | 7.3 | 10.711 h |
| February | 15.3°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 73 | 10.0 | 11.311 h |
| March | 18.3°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 133 | 14.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 136 | 15.0 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.3°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 226 | 17.0 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.4°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 249 | 18.1 | 13.714 h |
| July | 32.4°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 169 | 15.6 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 31.5°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 240 | 21.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 165 | 14.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 59 | 7.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 20.9°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 62 | 8.0 | 10.911 h |
| December | 16.2°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 52 | 7.1 | 10.511 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
- Ningde in AugustChina · 70 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 25.0°C · 287 mm rain
- Putian in AugustChina · 75 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 25.2°C · 265 mm rain
- Songcheng in AugustChina · 115 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 25.7°C · 283 mm rain
- Fu’an in AugustChina · 119 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.4°C · 246 mm rain
- Nanping in AugustChina · 130 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 25.4°C · 150 mm rain
- Quanzhou in AugustChina · 147 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.4°C · 245 mm rain
- Ximeicun in AugustChina · 151 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 24.9°C · 245 mm rain
- Jinjiang in AugustChina · 156 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 25.5°C · 224 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 Fuzhou) is explained once on the Fuzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.