Climate averages 1991–2020

Hechuan weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 32.0°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 24.9°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 182 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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July is a hot month in Hechuan: daytime highs average 32.0°C and nights cool to about 24.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 182 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 52 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Beibei (25 km away). In July its highs average 32.2°C, about as warm as Hechuan, with 175 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Hechuan ranks joint 130th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 444th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Hechuan is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 32.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 182 mm to 157 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. 05101520253035 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 2000

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

Every month, side by side

Hechuan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Hechuan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 11.2°C5.3°C5.3°C267.010.410 h
February 13.8°C7.1°C7.1°C297.611.111 h
March 18.0°C10.4°C10.4°C6512.012.012 h
April 23.0°C14.7°C14.7°C10613.312.913 h
May 26.3°C18.4°C18.4°C14614.913.614 h
June 28.9°C21.9°C21.9°C17215.414.014 h
July, selected 32.0°C24.9°C24.9°C18215.513.914 h
August 32.3°C25.0°C25.0°C15715.013.213 h
September 27.6°C21.1°C21.1°C11713.112.412 h
October 21.8°C16.3°C16.3°C9514.911.511 h
November 17.4°C11.6°C11.6°C6010.610.711 h
December 12.4°C6.9°C6.9°C348.210.310 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 Hechuan

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