Climate averages 1991–2020
Jishou weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: one of the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Jishou: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 166 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fenghuang (45 km away). In August its highs average 29.7°C, 1.3°C cooler than Jishou, with 164 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jishou ranks joint 238th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 517th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Jishou is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 166 mm to 118 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
Jishou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.0°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 93 | 13.3 | 10.611 h |
| February | 10.6°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 119 | 14.3 | 11.211 h |
| March | 15.1°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 187 | 18.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.0°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 270 | 19.2 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.3°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 326 | 18.6 | 13.514 h |
| June | 28.4°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 373 | 18.7 | 13.914 h |
| July | 31.0°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 295 | 16.3 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 31.0°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 166 | 14.7 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.3°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 118 | 10.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 132 | 12.4 | 11.512 h |
| November | 16.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 108 | 12.1 | 10.811 h |
| December | 10.4°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 69 | 10.4 | 10.410 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
- Fenghuang in AugustChina · 45 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 22.6°C · 164 mm rain
- Zhonghe in AugustChina · 74 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.3°C · 151 mm rain
- Tongren (Guizhou), China in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.7°C · 139 mm rain
- Huaihua in AugustChina · 88 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 24.1°C · 127 mm rain
- Zhongduo in AugustChina · 111 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 22.2°C · 176 mm rain
- Zhangjiajie in AugustChina · 116 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.3°C · 165 mm rain
- Hongjiang in AugustChina · 137 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.3°C · 137 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Chongqing), China in AugustChina · 164 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.5°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 Jishou) is explained once on the Jishou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.