Climate averages 1991–2020
Guankou weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Guankou: daytime highs average 32.6°C and nights cool to about 25.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 134 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xishan (56 km away). In August its highs average 32.8°C, about as warm as Guankou, with 139 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Guankou ranks joint 39th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 215th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Guankou is 3.4°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 134 mm to 86 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
Guankou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.5°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 77 | 11.1 | 10.611 h |
| February | 13.2°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 105 | 12.1 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.1°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 209 | 17.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.9°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 290 | 17.6 | 12.813 h |
| May | 27.0°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 308 | 16.7 | 13.514 h |
| June | 29.6°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 345 | 18.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 32.8°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 179 | 13.3 | 13.714 h |
| August, selected | 32.6°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 134 | 13.8 | 13.113 h |
| September | 29.3°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 86 | 10.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.4°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 62 | 7.6 | 11.512 h |
| November | 18.5°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 83 | 8.6 | 10.811 h |
| December | 12.8°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 57 | 7.8 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Xishan in AugustChina · 56 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 25.5°C · 139 mm rain
- Zhuzhou in AugustChina · 59 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 25.7°C · 135 mm rain
- Pingxiang in AugustChina · 64 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 24.7°C · 182 mm rain
- Changsha in AugustChina · 64 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 25.3°C · 127 mm rain
- Xiangtan in AugustChina · 79 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 25.6°C · 132 mm rain
- Yichun in AugustChina · 84 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 182 mm rain
- Shaoshan in AugustChina · 112 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 25.0°C · 132 mm rain
- Xiangxiang in AugustChina · 117 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 25.5°C · 133 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 Guankou) is explained once on the Guankou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.