Climate averages 1991–2020

Korla weather
in August.

A hot, very dry month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.8°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 19.6°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 8.5 mm 2 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Korla · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in Korla: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 19.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 8.5 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes August a very dry month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 52 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ürümqi (256 km away). In August its highs average 27.3°C, 4.4°C cooler than Korla, with 42 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Korla ranks joint 96th of 884 for the warmest August highs and 4th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Korla is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 5.0°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 8.5 mm to 5.1 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Korla climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Korla, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -1.0°C-9.6°C-9.6°C1.00.39.510 h
February 4.9°C-4.8°C-4.8°C3.61.010.611 h
March 13.4°C1.0°C1.0°C4.31.111.912 h
April 22.1°C8.6°C8.6°C7.41.813.313 h
May 27.4°C14.2°C14.2°C112.414.515 h
June 31.3°C18.7°C18.7°C133.115.215 h
July 32.7°C20.7°C20.7°C112.914.915 h
August, selected 31.8°C19.6°C19.6°C8.52.113.914 h
September 26.8°C14.6°C14.6°C5.11.312.513 h
October 18.3°C7.3°C7.3°C7.11.311.111 h
November 8.2°C-0.4°C-0.4°C3.61.19.910 h
December 0.1°C-7.3°C-7.3°C2.20.59.29 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

Distance from Korla

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Korla) is explained once on the Korla year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.