Climate averages 1991–2020
Ordos weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd 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 Ordos: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 15.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 92 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dongsheng (29 km away). In August its highs average 25.0°C, 0.7°C cooler than Ordos, with 95 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ordos ranks joint 771st 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; Ordos is 3.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 92 mm to 61 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
Ordos climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.3°C-14.0°C | -14.0°C | 2.9 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 1.3°C-9.7°C | -9.7°C | 5.3 | 1.6 | 10.711 h |
| March | 8.1°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 14 | 3.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.9°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 23 | 3.9 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.0°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 33 | 4.5 | 14.314 h |
| June | 26.7°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 39 | 6.6 | 14.915 h |
| July | 28.1°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 97 | 9.9 | 14.715 h |
| August, selected | 25.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 92 | 9.6 | 13.714 h |
| September | 20.6°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 61 | 7.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 13.6°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 27 | 4.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 5.1°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 13 | 2.2 | 10.010 h |
| December | -2.0°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 9.49 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
- Dongsheng in AugustChina · 29 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.1°C · 95 mm rain
- Baotou in AugustChina · 116 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 15.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Salaqi in AugustChina · 121 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 94 mm rain
- Shiguai in AugustChina · 129 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 14.5°C · 86 mm rain
- Yulinshi in AugustChina · 146 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.4°C · 102 mm rain
- Hohhot in AugustChina · 208 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 14.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Shuozhou in AugustChina · 229 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 14.7°C · 130 mm rain
- Bayan Nur in AugustChina · 239 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 17.1°C · 49 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 Ordos) is explained once on the Ordos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.