Climate averages 1991–2020
Poyang 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 Poyang: daytime highs average 32.6°C and nights cool to about 26.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 154 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jingdezhen (62 km away). In August its highs average 32.7°C, about as warm as Poyang, with 173 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Poyang ranks joint 39th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 391st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Poyang is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.2°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 154 mm to 77 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
Poyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.1°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 74 | 10.4 | 10.511 h |
| February | 12.8°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 99 | 11.5 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 190 | 15.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.6°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 243 | 16.1 | 12.813 h |
| May | 26.9°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 277 | 15.5 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 404 | 17.7 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.7°C26.8°C | 26.8°C | 231 | 13.2 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 32.6°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 154 | 13.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 29.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 77 | 8.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 52 | 5.8 | 11.511 h |
| November | 18.4°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 83 | 7.9 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.2°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 55 | 7.4 | 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
- Jingdezhen in AugustChina · 62 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 25.4°C · 173 mm rain
- Jinfeng in AugustChina · 84 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 26.0°C · 148 mm rain
- Nanchang in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 25.9°C · 136 mm rain
- Yingtan in AugustChina · 90 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 25.6°C · 140 mm rain
- Huayuan in AugustChina · 95 kmHigh 33.3°C · Low 25.6°C · 142 mm rain
- Pengze in AugustChina · 101 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.5°C · 142 mm rain
- Jiujiang in AugustChina · 102 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 25.7°C · 167 mm rain
- Fuzhou, China in AugustChina · 119 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 25.7°C · 133 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 Poyang) is explained once on the Poyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.