Climate averages 1991–2020
Jiujiang 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 Jiujiang: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 25.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 167 mm of rain on roughly 16 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 Wuxue (46 km away). In August its highs average 31.8°C, about as warm as Jiujiang, with 146 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jiujiang ranks joint 96th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 525th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Jiujiang is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 167 mm to 91 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
Jiujiang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 73 | 9.5 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.3°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 101 | 11.1 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.7°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 157 | 14.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 203 | 14.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 237 | 14.2 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.9°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 344 | 16.9 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.2°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 243 | 15.4 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 31.8°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 167 | 16.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.1°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 91 | 9.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.0°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 60 | 7.0 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.0°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 66 | 7.9 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.0°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 49 | 7.0 | 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
- Wuxue in AugustChina · 46 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 25.5°C · 146 mm rain
- Huangmei in AugustChina · 54 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.1°C · 170 mm rain
- Pengze in AugustChina · 57 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.5°C · 142 mm rain
- Poyang in AugustChina · 102 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 26.4°C · 154 mm rain
- Qingquan in AugustChina · 110 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 24.8°C · 142 mm rain
- Daye in AugustChina · 110 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 25.6°C · 147 mm rain
- Huangshi in AugustChina · 110 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 25.7°C · 138 mm rain
- Nanchang in AugustChina · 114 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 25.9°C · 136 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 Jiujiang) is explained once on the Jiujiang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.