Climate averages 1991–2020

Hanchuan weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.7°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 25.5°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 230 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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July is a hot month in Hanchuan: daytime highs average 31.7°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 230 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 55 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Caidian (27 km away). In July its highs average 31.9°C, about as warm as Hanchuan, with 246 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hanchuan ranks joint 196th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 686th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Hanchuan is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 31.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 230 mm to 133 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

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

Every month, side by side

Hanchuan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Hanchuan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 9.1°C0.5°C0.5°C447.110.410 h
February 11.8°C2.9°C2.9°C608.511.111 h
March 16.4°C7.1°C7.1°C9010.812.012 h
April 22.3°C12.9°C12.9°C14810.912.913 h
May 26.7°C17.9°C17.9°C18512.413.714 h
June 29.5°C22.0°C22.0°C24313.514.114 h
July, selected 31.7°C25.5°C25.5°C23014.513.914 h
August 31.5°C24.8°C24.8°C13313.513.313 h
September 28.1°C20.4°C20.4°C939.012.412 h
October 23.1°C14.5°C14.5°C697.511.511 h
November 17.0°C8.2°C8.2°C547.010.611 h
December 11.1°C2.4°C2.4°C285.210.210 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 Hanchuan

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