Climate averages 1991–2020
Huaihua weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 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 Huaihua: daytime highs average 31.3°C and nights cool to about 24.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 127 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 07 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hongjiang (50 km away). In August its highs average 31.6°C, about as warm as Huaihua, with 137 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Huaihua ranks joint 178th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 159th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Huaihua is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 28.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 127 mm to 83 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
Huaihua climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.9°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 90 | 13.8 | 10.611 h |
| February | 11.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 109 | 14.7 | 11.211 h |
| March | 15.6°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 184 | 18.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.5°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 240 | 18.9 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 270 | 17.6 | 13.513 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 270 | 18.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 31.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 192 | 15.2 | 13.714 h |
| August, selected | 31.3°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 127 | 14.2 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.0°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 83 | 9.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 22.3°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 96 | 10.7 | 11.512 h |
| November | 16.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 82 | 10.6 | 10.811 h |
| December | 11.2°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 64 | 10.5 | 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
- Hongjiang in AugustChina · 50 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.3°C · 137 mm rain
- Fenghuang in AugustChina · 57 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 22.6°C · 164 mm rain
- Tongren (Guizhou), China in AugustChina · 82 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.7°C · 139 mm rain
- Jishou in AugustChina · 88 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.9°C · 166 mm rain
- Wugang in AugustChina · 112 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.4°C · 158 mm rain
- Shangmei in AugustChina · 129 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.0°C · 144 mm rain
- Zhonghe in AugustChina · 140 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.3°C · 151 mm rain
- Lengshuijiang in AugustChina · 141 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.0°C · 140 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 Huaihua) is explained once on the Huaihua year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.