Climate averages 1991–2020
Linxia Chengguanzhen weather
in August.
A warm, 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 warm month in Linxia Chengguanzhen: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 13.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 122 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 30 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanzhou (76 km away). In August its highs average 27.5°C, 4.0°C warmer than Linxia Chengguanzhen, with 100 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Linxia Chengguanzhen ranks joint 856th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 140th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Linxia Chengguanzhen is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.7°C to 18.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 122 mm to 104 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Linxia Chengguanzhen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.1°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 7.5 | 2.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 2.9°C-9.4°C | -9.4°C | 12 | 3.5 | 10.911 h |
| March | 9.0°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 22 | 5.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.6°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 33 | 7.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 19.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 64 | 10.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 22.9°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 74 | 10.8 | 14.515 h |
| July | 24.7°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 104 | 13.6 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 23.5°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 122 | 14.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 18.8°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 104 | 14.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 13.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 13.2 | 11.311 h |
| November | 7.3°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 15 | 4.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 1.8°C-8.7°C | -8.7°C | 4.1 | 1.2 | 9.810 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
- Lanzhou in AugustChina · 76 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 16.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Tongren (Qinghai), China in AugustChina · 108 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 10.8°C · 161 mm rain
- Nianbo in AugustChina · 121 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 14.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Dingxi in AugustChina · 128 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 13.4°C · 103 mm rain
- Baiyin in AugustChina · 136 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 15.1°C · 73 mm rain
- Xining in AugustChina · 173 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 12.6°C · 85 mm rain
- Luomen in AugustChina · 190 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Pan’an in AugustChina · 197 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.0°C · 115 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 Linxia Chengguanzhen) is explained once on the Linxia Chengguanzhen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.