Climate averages 1991–2020
Leshan weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Leshan: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 242 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 12 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Luocheng (32 km away). In August its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Leshan, with 273 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Leshan ranks joint 515th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 772nd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Leshan is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.0°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 242 mm to 128 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
Leshan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.3°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 46 | 12.1 | 10.510 h |
| February | 12.8°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 41 | 11.2 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.3°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 48 | 11.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.7°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 73 | 12.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 26.4°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 83 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.7°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 125 | 14.1 | 14.014 h |
| July | 30.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 228 | 19.7 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 29.6°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 242 | 19.4 | 13.213 h |
| September | 25.6°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 128 | 16.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.7°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 84 | 17.1 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.4°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 59 | 13.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.5°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 42 | 11.9 | 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
- Luocheng in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.5°C · 273 mm rain
- Meishan in AugustChina · 54 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 276 mm rain
- Ya'an in AugustChina · 88 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 21.3°C · 329 mm rain
- Zigong in AugustChina · 101 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 23.7°C · 210 mm rain
- Ziyang in AugustChina · 106 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.1°C · 205 mm rain
- Shuifu in AugustChina · 121 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 24.0°C · 242 mm rain
- Baixi in AugustChina · 123 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.8°C · 242 mm rain
- Yibin in AugustChina · 123 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 23.8°C · 231 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 Leshan) is explained once on the Leshan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.