Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanchang weather
in July.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Nanchang: daytime highs average 32.9°C and nights cool to about 26.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 47 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Poyang (86 km away). In July its highs average 32.7°C, about as warm as Nanchang, with 231 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchang ranks joint 49th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 480th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Nanchang is 2.9°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 32.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 188 mm to 136 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Nanchang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.9°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 66 | 9.8 | 10.511 h |
| February | 12.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 91 | 11.1 | 11.211 h |
| March | 16.7°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 170 | 16.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 195 | 16.1 | 12.813 h |
| May | 27.1°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 228 | 15.7 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.4°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 338 | 17.9 | 13.914 h |
| July, selected | 32.9°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 188 | 13.1 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.5°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 136 | 13.4 | 13.213 h |
| September | 29.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 73 | 8.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.3°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 53 | 6.1 | 11.512 h |
| November | 18.3°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 77 | 7.6 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.2°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 48 | 7.0 | 10.410 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
July in nearby cities
- Poyang in JulyChina · 86 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 26.8°C · 231 mm rain
- Jinfeng in JulyChina · 88 kmHigh 33.4°C · Low 26.4°C · 196 mm rain
- Fuzhou, China in JulyChina · 93 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 26.1°C · 175 mm rain
- Bashan in JulyChina · 104 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 25.9°C · 169 mm rain
- Jiujiang in JulyChina · 114 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 26.2°C · 243 mm rain
- Yingtan in JulyChina · 123 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 25.9°C · 183 mm rain
- Xiugu in JulyChina · 125 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 26.1°C · 200 mm rain
- Wuxue in JulyChina · 133 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.9°C · 224 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 Nanchang) is explained once on the Nanchang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.