Climate averages 1991–2020
Linfen weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Linfen: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 20.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 127 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 32 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xinzhi (49 km away). In August its highs average 30.3°C, 0.7°C warmer than Linfen, with 111 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Linfen ranks joint 515th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 159th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Linfen is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.8°C to 24.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 127 mm to 89 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
Linfen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 7.3 | 2.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.8°C-2.4°C | -2.4°C | 12 | 2.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 14.9°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 20 | 4.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.6°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 43 | 6.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 26.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 46 | 6.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 30.8°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 69 | 8.3 | 14.615 h |
| July | 31.3°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 149 | 13.6 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 29.6°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 127 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| September | 24.8°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 89 | 9.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.2°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 52 | 7.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 26 | 4.5 | 10.310 h |
| December | 6.0°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 6.3 | 1.9 | 9.810 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
- Xinzhi in AugustChina · 49 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 20.7°C · 111 mm rain
- Changzhi (Shanxi, 35.21°N 111.74°E), China in AugustChina · 100 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 21.0°C · 107 mm rain
- Jiexiu in AugustChina · 110 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 18.9°C · 116 mm rain
- Hancheng in AugustChina · 121 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 21.1°C · 104 mm rain
- Yuncheng in AugustChina · 128 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 22.2°C · 79 mm rain
- Jincheng in AugustChina · 135 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.0°C · 118 mm rain
- Changzhi (Shanxi, 36.18°N 113.11°E), China in AugustChina · 143 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 113 mm rain
- Jiyuan in AugustChina · 147 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 21.7°C · 124 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 Linfen) is explained once on the Linfen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.