Climate averages 1991–2020
Mingshui weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Mingshui: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 21.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 178 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 34 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhoucun (30 km away). In August its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Mingshui, with 173 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Mingshui ranks joint 475th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 627th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Mingshui is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.5°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 178 mm to 57 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
Mingshui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 6.8 | 1.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.8°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 14 | 3.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 14.2°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 18 | 3.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.2°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 37 | 5.4 | 13.113 h |
| May | 26.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 57 | 6.0 | 14.114 h |
| June | 31.0°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 77 | 8.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 31.6°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 176 | 13.5 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 29.8°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 178 | 13.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.3°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 57 | 6.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.7°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 31 | 4.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 25 | 4.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 5.9°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 9.5 | 2.2 | 9.710 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
- Zhoucun in AugustChina · 30 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 21.6°C · 173 mm rain
- Boshan in AugustChina · 39 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.6°C · 176 mm rain
- Jinan in AugustChina · 45 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.1°C · 155 mm rain
- Nanding in AugustChina · 50 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.0°C · 164 mm rain
- Zibo in AugustChina · 51 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 21.7°C · 164 mm rain
- Laiwu in AugustChina · 60 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.4°C · 165 mm rain
- Tai’an in AugustChina · 68 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 21.8°C · 176 mm rain
- Changqing in AugustChina · 71 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.1°C · 163 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 Mingshui) is explained once on the Mingshui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.