Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanchong weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Nanchong: daytime highs average 31.3°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 174 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 16 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suining (58 km away). In August its highs average 31.4°C, about as warm as Nanchong, with 166 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchong ranks joint 178th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 590th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Nanchong is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.8°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 174 mm to 138 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
Nanchong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 25 | 6.4 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 29 | 7.2 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.2°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 55 | 10.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.4°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 96 | 12.0 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 135 | 13.1 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 184 | 14.1 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.2°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 216 | 16.8 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 31.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 174 | 14.4 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.5°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 138 | 13.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 57 | 9.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 30 | 6.9 | 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
- Suining in AugustChina · 58 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.9°C · 166 mm rain
- Guang’an in AugustChina · 64 kmHigh 32.1°C · Low 24.7°C · 174 mm rain
- Zitong in AugustChina · 73 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 169 mm rain
- Hechuan in AugustChina · 91 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.0°C · 157 mm rain
- Bachuan in AugustChina · 105 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 24.6°C · 169 mm rain
- Beibei in AugustChina · 113 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 25.1°C · 152 mm rain
- Longgang, China in AugustChina · 127 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.8°C · 173 mm rain
- Guixi in AugustChina · 131 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.1°C · 162 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 Nanchong) is explained once on the Nanchong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.