Climate averages 1991–2020
Lichuan weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: one of the 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 Lichuan: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 19.0°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 230 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 14 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Enshi (61 km away). In August its highs average 29.4°C, 3.7°C warmer than Lichuan, with 159 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lichuan ranks joint 771st of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 752nd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Lichuan is 3.6°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 230 mm to 171 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
Lichuan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.6°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 63 | 12.9 | 10.410 h |
| February | 7.0°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 73 | 13.5 | 11.111 h |
| March | 11.5°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 118 | 16.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 16.9°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 178 | 17.4 | 12.913 h |
| May | 20.5°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 226 | 18.6 | 13.714 h |
| June | 23.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 265 | 19.1 | 14.114 h |
| July | 25.7°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 276 | 22.4 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 25.7°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 230 | 19.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 21.8°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 171 | 15.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 16.5°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 146 | 15.8 | 11.511 h |
| November | 11.8°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 101 | 13.6 | 10.711 h |
| December | 6.6°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 60 | 12.3 | 10.210 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
- Enshi in AugustChina · 61 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.7°C · 159 mm rain
- Wanzhou in AugustChina · 68 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 25.3°C · 164 mm rain
- Nanbin in AugustChina · 79 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.6°C · 160 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Chongqing), China in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 173 mm rain
- Yezhou in AugustChina · 90 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 131 mm rain
- Yong’an in AugustChina · 99 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 148 mm rain
- Hanfeng in AugustChina · 106 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.1°C · 142 mm rain
- Linjiang in AugustChina · 107 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 25.5°C · 185 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 Lichuan) is explained once on the Lichuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.