Climate averages 1991–2020
Guiyang 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 Guiyang: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 19.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 124 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 05 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Anshun (86 km away). In August its highs average 25.1°C, 1.7°C cooler than Guiyang, with 165 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Guiyang ranks joint 707th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 151st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Guiyang is 2.4°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.8°C to 24.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 124 mm to 101 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
Guiyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.1°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 67 | 14.5 | 10.711 h |
| February | 11.1°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 61 | 13.8 | 11.211 h |
| March | 15.2°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 97 | 19.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.9°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 130 | 19.0 | 12.813 h |
| May | 22.9°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 191 | 19.3 | 13.413 h |
| June | 25.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 239 | 20.7 | 13.814 h |
| July | 26.7°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 168 | 17.7 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 26.9°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 124 | 15.7 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.1°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 101 | 12.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 105 | 14.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 15.0°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 63 | 11.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 9.8°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 48 | 11.6 | 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
- Anshun in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 165 mm rain
- Duyun in AugustChina · 87 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.0°C · 156 mm rain
- Dushan in AugustChina · 117 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 20.0°C · 158 mm rain
- Zunyi in AugustChina · 124 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 20.7°C · 132 mm rain
- Kaili in AugustChina · 126 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 21.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Liuzhi in AugustChina · 134 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 18.0°C · 179 mm rain
- Bijie in AugustChina · 163 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.8°C · 160 mm rain
- Loushanguan in AugustChina · 173 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.6°C · 136 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 Guiyang) is explained once on the Guiyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.