Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinchang weather
in July.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Jinchang: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 17.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes July a fairly dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 34 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wuwei (74 km away). In July its highs average 28.3°C, 1.3°C cooler than Jinchang, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinchang ranks joint 608th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 28th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Jinchang is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 39 mm to 41 mm.
The annual picture
July in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Jinchang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.9°C-11.8°C | -11.8°C | 1.1 | 0.3 | 9.810 h |
| February | 3.7°C-8.1°C | -8.1°C | 1.6 | 0.7 | 10.711 h |
| March | 10.5°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 4.0 | 1.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.0°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 7.9 | 2.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 23.3°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 15 | 4.1 | 14.214 h |
| June | 27.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 23 | 5.1 | 14.815 h |
| July, selected | 29.7°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 39 | 6.8 | 14.615 h |
| August | 27.6°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 41 | 7.1 | 13.714 h |
| September | 22.1°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 33 | 6.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 15.3°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 11 | 2.8 | 11.211 h |
| November | 7.5°C-4.0°C | -4.0°C | 2.0 | 0.6 | 10.110 h |
| December | 0.7°C-10.2°C | -10.2°C | 0.8 | 0.2 | 9.510 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Wuwei in JulyChina · 74 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 15.4°C · 43 mm rain
- Zhangye in JulyChina · 159 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 14.5°C · 39 mm rain
- Qiaotou in JulyChina · 180 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 9.9°C · 112 mm rain
- Xining in JulyChina · 212 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 13.1°C · 81 mm rain
- Nianbo in JulyChina · 226 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 15.2°C · 93 mm rain
- Baiyin in JulyChina · 279 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 16.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Zhongwei in JulyChina · 285 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 19.3°C · 53 mm rain
- Bayan Hot in JulyChina · 304 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 76 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 Jinchang) is explained once on the Jinchang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.