Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinshi weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Jinshi: daytime highs average 31.4°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 148 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 13 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiulin (53 km away). In August its highs average 31.4°C, about as warm as Jinshi, with 132 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinshi ranks joint 155th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 335th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Jinshi is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 148 mm to 90 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
Jinshi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.0°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 60 | 8.8 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.6°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 77 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.1°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 117 | 14.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 154 | 14.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.4°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 185 | 14.3 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 241 | 15.3 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.7°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 251 | 15.6 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 31.4°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 148 | 14.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.8°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 90 | 9.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.7°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 84 | 9.2 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 72 | 8.9 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.2°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 36 | 6.5 | 10.310 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
- Xiulin in AugustChina · 53 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.0°C · 132 mm rain
- Changde in AugustChina · 66 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.8°C · 140 mm rain
- Buhe in AugustChina · 83 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 143 mm rain
- Zhicheng in AugustChina · 84 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.4°C · 188 mm rain
- Jingzhou in AugustChina · 88 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 143 mm rain
- Zhijiang in AugustChina · 91 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.6°C · 170 mm rain
- Yueyang in AugustChina · 121 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 25.5°C · 130 mm rain
- Heshan in AugustChina · 124 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.0°C · 154 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 Jinshi) is explained once on the Jinshi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.