Climate averages 1991–2020

Nanpiao weather
in August.

A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.7°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 20.0°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 147 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Nanpiao · average highYear overview

August is a hot month in Nanpiao: daytime highs average 28.7°C and nights cool to about 20.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 147 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 49 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinzhou (33 km away). In August its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Nanpiao, with 151 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanpiao ranks joint 613th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 321st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Nanpiao is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 4.1°C to 24.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 147 mm to 43 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Nanpiao climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Nanpiao, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -1.6°C-11.5°C-11.5°C2.80.89.610 h
February 2.7°C-7.8°C-7.8°C4.71.210.611 h
March 9.5°C-2.4°C-2.4°C132.511.912 h
April 17.6°C4.7°C4.7°C284.713.313 h
May 24.4°C12.1°C12.1°C506.314.514 h
June 28.2°C17.6°C17.6°C869.915.115 h
July 29.9°C21.1°C21.1°C13711.214.815 h
August, selected 28.7°C20.0°C20.0°C14710.413.814 h
September 24.6°C14.1°C14.1°C435.612.513 h
October 17.1°C5.9°C5.9°C334.911.111 h
November 6.9°C-2.7°C-2.7°C152.89.910 h
December 0.1°C-8.7°C-8.7°C4.11.29.39 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

Distance from Nanpiao

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Nanpiao) is explained once on the Nanpiao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.