Climate averages 1991–2020
Pingliang weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Pingliang: daytime highs average 25.0°C and nights cool to about 15.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 148 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 30 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Guyuan (64 km away). In August its highs average 23.3°C, 1.7°C cooler than Pingliang, with 125 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Pingliang ranks joint 809th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 335th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Pingliang is 4.3°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.7°C to 20.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 148 mm to 116 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
Pingliang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.5°C-8.0°C | -8.0°C | 8.3 | 2.6 | 10.010 h |
| February | 5.6°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 15 | 4.2 | 10.911 h |
| March | 11.2°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 31 | 6.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 44 | 7.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.6°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 62 | 8.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 25.3°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 79 | 8.7 | 14.515 h |
| July | 26.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 121 | 12.3 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 25.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 148 | 13.1 | 13.513 h |
| September | 20.3°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 116 | 12.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 15.2°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 66 | 9.8 | 11.311 h |
| November | 9.5°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 21 | 5.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 4.1°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 5.4 | 1.9 | 9.810 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
- Guyuan in AugustChina · 64 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 13.8°C · 125 mm rain
- Qingyang in AugustChina · 89 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.7°C · 136 mm rain
- Xingguo in AugustChina · 119 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 113 mm rain
- Beidao in AugustChina · 130 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.1°C · 116 mm rain
- Tianshui in AugustChina · 137 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 122 mm rain
- Baoji in AugustChina · 140 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 20.1°C · 181 mm rain
- Guozhen in AugustChina · 144 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 20.2°C · 181 mm rain
- Xinxing in AugustChina · 150 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.3°C · 119 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 Pingliang) is explained once on the Pingliang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.