Climate averages 1991–2020
Kashgar weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Kashgar: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 19.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 26 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Artux (32 km away). In August its highs average 30.9°C, about as warm as Kashgar, with 14 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kashgar ranks joint 238th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 21st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Kashgar is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.8°C to 26.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 26 mm to 24 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Kashgar climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.0°C-9.1°C | -9.1°C | 4.6 | 1.2 | 9.710 h |
| February | 5.3°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 9.9 | 2.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 14.0°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 13 | 3.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.4°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 9.8 | 2.5 | 13.213 h |
| May | 27.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 22 | 3.9 | 14.314 h |
| June | 31.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 17 | 3.8 | 14.915 h |
| July | 33.2°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 16 | 3.7 | 14.715 h |
| August, selected | 31.0°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 26 | 4.6 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.2°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 24 | 4.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.1°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 12 | 2.3 | 11.211 h |
| November | 10.1°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 7.5 | 1.9 | 10.110 h |
| December | 1.8°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 5.0 | 1.2 | 9.49 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Artux in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 14 mm rain
- Shache in AugustChina · 159 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 15 mm rain
- Tumxuk in AugustChina · 267 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 20.8°C · 13 mm rain
- Osh in AugustKyrgyzstan · 296 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 16.0°C · 19 mm rain
- Andijon in AugustUzbekistan · 342 kmHigh 35.3°C · Low 20.3°C · 8.9 mm rain
- Quvasoy in AugustUzbekistan · 354 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 19.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Shahrixon in AugustUzbekistan · 362 kmHigh 36.1°C · Low 21.2°C · 8.1 mm rain
- Fergana in AugustUzbekistan · 373 kmHigh 33.8°C · Low 20.4°C · 6.9 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 Kashgar) is explained once on the Kashgar year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.