Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinjiang weather
in August.
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.
August is a hot month in Jinjiang: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 224 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Quanzhou (11 km away). In August its highs average 31.1°C, 0.7°C warmer than Jinjiang, with 245 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinjiang ranks joint 326th of 884 for the warmest August highs and 748th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Jinjiang is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 224 mm to 114 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
Jinjiang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.4°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 38 | 5.9 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.1°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 53 | 8.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.7°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 83 | 11.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.6°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 93 | 11.2 | 12.713 h |
| May | 26.5°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 156 | 13.6 | 13.313 h |
| June | 28.7°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 192 | 17.1 | 13.614 h |
| July | 30.7°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 154 | 12.9 | 13.514 h |
| August, selected | 30.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 224 | 16.6 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.3°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 114 | 10.6 | 12.312 h |
| October | 26.6°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 49 | 3.3 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.8°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 47 | 4.2 | 11.011 h |
| December | 18.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 39 | 5.0 | 10.611 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
- Quanzhou in AugustChina · 11 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.4°C · 245 mm rain
- Ximeicun in AugustChina · 27 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 24.9°C · 245 mm rain
- Xiamen in AugustChina · 62 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 25.4°C · 251 mm rain
- Putian in AugustChina · 82 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 25.2°C · 265 mm rain
- Zhangzhou in AugustChina · 99 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 24.6°C · 263 mm rain
- Fuzhou in AugustChina · 156 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.1°C · 240 mm rain
- Longyan in AugustChina · 159 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.5°C · 223 mm rain
- Sanming in AugustChina · 186 kmHigh 33.6°C · Low 25.0°C · 173 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 Jinjiang) is explained once on the Jinjiang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.