Climate averages 1991–2020
Pengze weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Pengze: daytime highs average 31.4°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 142 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 13 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jiujiang (57 km away). In August its highs average 31.8°C, about as warm as Pengze, with 167 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Pengze ranks joint 155th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 288th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Pengze is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.6°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 142 mm to 74 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
Pengze climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 66 | 9.1 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 90 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.4°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 145 | 13.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.4°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 188 | 13.4 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 228 | 12.8 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.5°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 337 | 15.4 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.7°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 226 | 13.0 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 31.4°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 142 | 13.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.8°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 74 | 8.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.8°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 55 | 5.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 58 | 7.1 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.6°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 44 | 6.5 | 10.310 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
- Jiujiang in AugustChina · 57 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 25.7°C · 167 mm rain
- Huangmei in AugustChina · 60 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.1°C · 170 mm rain
- Anqing in AugustChina · 84 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.2°C · 149 mm rain
- Jingdezhen in AugustChina · 93 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 25.4°C · 173 mm rain
- Wuxue in AugustChina · 96 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 25.5°C · 146 mm rain
- Poyang in AugustChina · 101 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 26.4°C · 154 mm rain
- Chizhou in AugustChina · 123 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.1°C · 140 mm rain
- Qingquan in AugustChina · 138 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 24.8°C · 142 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 Pengze) is explained once on the Pengze year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.