Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunming weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Kunming: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 16.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 238 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 01 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Majie (8 km away). In August its highs average 23.5°C, about as warm as Kunming, with 238 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kunming ranks joint 853rd of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 766th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Kunming is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.6°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 238 mm to 165 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
Kunming climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.7°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 35 | 5.4 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 30 | 5.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.5°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 41 | 6.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 69 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| May | 24.6°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 139 | 15.0 | 13.313 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 278 | 23.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 23.5°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 274 | 26.6 | 13.514 h |
| August, selected | 23.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 238 | 24.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 22.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 165 | 20.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.5°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 113 | 16.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 16.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 34 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| December | 14.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 24 | 4.5 | 10.611 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
- Majie in AugustChina · 8 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 16.8°C · 238 mm rain
- Anning in AugustChina · 27 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.4°C · 231 mm rain
- Haikou, China in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 17.2°C · 235 mm rain
- Longquan in AugustChina · 69 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 18.3°C · 202 mm rain
- Yuxi in AugustChina · 78 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 17.8°C · 197 mm rain
- Miyang in AugustChina · 102 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 18.6°C · 163 mm rain
- Qujing in AugustChina · 118 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.9°C · 174 mm rain
- Chuxiong in AugustChina · 118 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 17.0°C · 187 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 Kunming) is explained once on the Kunming year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Majie lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.