Climate averages 1991–2020
Nianbo weather
in August.
A warm, 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 warm month in Nianbo: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 92 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 33 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xining (61 km away). In August its highs average 22.5°C, 1.0°C cooler than Nianbo, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nianbo ranks joint 856th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 67th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Nianbo is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.6°C to 18.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 92 mm to 87 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Nianbo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.6°C-13.3°C | -13.3°C | 4.1 | 1.6 | 10.010 h |
| February | 3.1°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 8.1 | 2.6 | 10.811 h |
| March | 9.0°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 20 | 5.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.5°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 35 | 7.6 | 13.113 h |
| May | 19.7°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 62 | 11.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 23.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 67 | 12.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 24.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 93 | 14.8 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 23.5°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 92 | 15.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 18.9°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 87 | 15.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 13.3°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 50 | 10.9 | 11.311 h |
| November | 6.6°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 11 | 3.5 | 10.310 h |
| December | 1.1°C-10.7°C | -10.7°C | 3.3 | 1.1 | 9.710 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
- Xining in AugustChina · 61 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 12.6°C · 85 mm rain
- Qiaotou in AugustChina · 83 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 9.9°C · 125 mm rain
- Tongren (Qinghai), China in AugustChina · 113 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 10.8°C · 161 mm rain
- Linxia Chengguanzhen in AugustChina · 121 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 13.0°C · 122 mm rain
- Lanzhou in AugustChina · 136 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 16.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Baiyin in AugustChina · 157 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 15.1°C · 73 mm rain
- Wuwei in AugustChina · 162 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 14.5°C · 44 mm rain
- Dingxi in AugustChina · 223 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 13.4°C · 103 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 Nianbo) is explained once on the Nianbo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.