Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanqiao weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Nanqiao: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 25.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 149 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th 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 Fengxiang (7 km away). In August its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Nanqiao, with 152 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanqiao ranks joint 326th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 344th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Nanqiao is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 26.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 149 mm to 104 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
Nanqiao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.5°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 64 | 8.7 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.0°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 64 | 9.1 | 11.111 h |
| March | 13.6°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 100 | 11.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 18.8°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 110 | 10.6 | 12.913 h |
| May | 23.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 133 | 10.6 | 13.714 h |
| June | 26.6°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 275 | 14.9 | 14.114 h |
| July | 30.7°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 143 | 12.3 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 30.5°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 149 | 14.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 104 | 10.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.4°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 62 | 6.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.2°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 55 | 7.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 47 | 6.8 | 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
- Fengxiang in AugustChina · 7 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 26.1°C · 152 mm rain
- Jinshan in AugustChina · 17 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 26.0°C · 150 mm rain
- Xinqiao in AugustChina · 21 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 168 mm rain
- Minhang in AugustChina · 23 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 25.3°C · 168 mm rain
- Songjiang in AugustChina · 25 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 25.4°C · 168 mm rain
- Zhujing in AugustChina · 28 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 168 mm rain
- Xuhui in AugustChina · 31 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 25.4°C · 154 mm rain
- Shanghai in AugustChina · 34 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 25.5°C · 154 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 Nanqiao) is explained once on the Nanqiao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.