Climate averages 1991–2020
Ordos weather
in July.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Ordos: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 17.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes July a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 40 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dongsheng (29 km away). In July its highs average 27.4°C, 0.7°C cooler than Ordos, with 103 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ordos ranks joint 698th of 884 for the warmest July highs and 62nd of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Ordos is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 2.4°C to 25.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 97 mm to 92 mm.
The annual picture
July 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, selected | 28.1°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 97 | 9.9 | 14.715 h |
| August | 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
July in nearby cities
- Dongsheng in JulyChina · 29 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 16.8°C · 103 mm rain
- Baotou in JulyChina · 116 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 17.4°C · 81 mm rain
- Salaqi in JulyChina · 121 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 17.5°C · 101 mm rain
- Shiguai in JulyChina · 129 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 16.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Yulinshi in JulyChina · 146 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 19.0°C · 106 mm rain
- Hohhot in JulyChina · 208 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 16.0°C · 89 mm rain
- Shuozhou in JulyChina · 229 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 16.0°C · 121 mm rain
- Bayan Nur in JulyChina · 239 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 45 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.