Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinniu weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Jinniu: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 199 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes August a very wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiangcheng (37 km away). In August its highs average 23.3°C, 3.4°C cooler than Jinniu, with 202 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinniu ranks joint 715th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 701st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Jinniu is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 25.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 199 mm to 142 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
Jinniu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.8°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 14 | 2.4 | 10.711 h |
| February | 21.4°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 12 | 2.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 25.0°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 15 | 2.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 27.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 25 | 3.8 | 12.813 h |
| May | 29.0°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 79 | 8.3 | 13.413 h |
| June | 28.5°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 140 | 14.7 | 13.714 h |
| July | 26.8°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 199 | 22.1 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 26.7°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 199 | 22.6 | 13.013 h |
| September | 25.5°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 142 | 18.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 68 | 10.3 | 11.612 h |
| November | 21.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 18.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 8.5 | 2.1 | 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
- Xiangcheng in AugustChina · 37 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 202 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in AugustChina · 43 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.6°C · 179 mm rain
- Dali Old Town in AugustChina · 43 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 16.6°C · 242 mm rain
- Dali in AugustChina · 44 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 16.9°C · 275 mm rain
- Micheng in AugustChina · 52 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 17.8°C · 220 mm rain
- Lijiang in AugustChina · 124 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 14.4°C · 277 mm rain
- Chuxiong in AugustChina · 129 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 17.0°C · 187 mm rain
- Baoshan (Yunnan), China in AugustChina · 161 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 17.4°C · 304 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 Jinniu) is explained once on the Jinniu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.