Climate averages 1991–2020
Jingmen weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Jingmen: daytime highs average 30.8°C and nights cool to about 24.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 159 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhongxiang (39 km away). In August its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Jingmen, with 155 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jingmen ranks joint 276th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 440th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Jingmen is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 159 mm to 89 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
Jingmen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 31 | 5.2 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.5°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 38 | 6.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.1°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 62 | 9.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 100 | 10.5 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.4°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 142 | 11.4 | 13.714 h |
| June | 29.4°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 202 | 12.6 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.2°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 223 | 15.0 | 14.014 h |
| August, selected | 30.8°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 159 | 14.2 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.1°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 89 | 9.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.3°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 73 | 7.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.3°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 49 | 7.1 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 22 | 4.5 | 10.210 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
August in nearby cities
- Zhongxiang in AugustChina · 39 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.1°C · 155 mm rain
- Duobao in AugustChina · 61 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.5°C · 147 mm rain
- Jingzhou in AugustChina · 76 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 143 mm rain
- Zhijiang in AugustChina · 81 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.6°C · 170 mm rain
- Buhe in AugustChina · 83 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 143 mm rain
- Xinshi in AugustChina · 89 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.3°C · 140 mm rain
- Nanzhang Chengguanzhen in AugustChina · 91 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.3°C · 209 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Hubei), China in AugustChina · 95 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 24.5°C · 139 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 Jingmen) is explained once on the Jingmen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.