Climate averages 1991–2020
Gulin weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Gulin: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 23.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 154 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 08 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xuyong (40 km away). In August its highs average 30.9°C, about as warm as Gulin, with 210 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Gulin ranks joint 198th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 391st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Gulin is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.2°C to 27.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 154 mm to 124 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
Gulin climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.7°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 53 | 15.4 | 10.611 h |
| February | 12.7°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 50 | 14.2 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.1°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 88 | 19.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.1°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 117 | 19.9 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.3°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 162 | 20.6 | 13.514 h |
| June | 27.9°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 205 | 20.6 | 13.914 h |
| July | 31.0°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 179 | 18.6 | 13.714 h |
| August, selected | 31.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 154 | 18.1 | 13.113 h |
| September | 27.0°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 124 | 15.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.8°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 139 | 20.2 | 11.512 h |
| November | 16.3°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 79 | 16.0 | 10.811 h |
| December | 11.1°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 53 | 13.8 | 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
- Xuyong in AugustChina · 40 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 23.2°C · 210 mm rain
- Gusong in AugustChina · 64 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 22.3°C · 223 mm rain
- Hejiang in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.3°C · 163 mm rain
- Bijie in AugustChina · 97 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.8°C · 160 mm rain
- Loushanguan in AugustChina · 100 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.6°C · 136 mm rain
- Luzhou in AugustChina · 102 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 173 mm rain
- Changning in AugustChina · 105 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 212 mm rain
- Zunyi in AugustChina · 115 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 20.7°C · 132 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 Gulin) is explained once on the Gulin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.