Climate averages 1991–2020
Pu'er weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th 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 Pu'er: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 19.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 342 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 55 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ning’er (29 km away). In August its highs average 25.3°C, about as warm as Pu'er, with 363 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Pu'er ranks joint 771st of 884 for the warmest August highs and 875th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Pu'er is 3.5°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 342 mm to 218 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
Pu'er climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.9°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 29 | 4.3 | 10.911 h |
| February | 23.0°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 18 | 3.5 | 11.411 h |
| March | 26.8°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 35 | 5.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 28.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 67 | 9.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 166 | 17.3 | 13.213 h |
| June | 26.7°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 255 | 25.5 | 13.514 h |
| July | 25.6°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 377 | 29.1 | 13.413 h |
| August, selected | 25.7°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 342 | 29.1 | 12.913 h |
| September | 25.2°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 218 | 25.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 133 | 19.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 21.3°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 49 | 6.9 | 11.111 h |
| December | 19.1°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 23 | 4.4 | 10.811 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
- Ning’er in AugustChina · 29 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 363 mm rain
- Yunjinghong in AugustChina · 88 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.4°C · 313 mm rain
- Menglang in AugustChina · 112 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 19.9°C · 245 mm rain
- Lincang in AugustChina · 151 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 18.4°C · 281 mm rain
- Jianshui in AugustChina · 167 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.1°C · 287 mm rain
- Kēng Tung in AugustMyanmar · 168 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.7°C · 309 mm rain
- Möng Yang in AugustMyanmar · 170 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 20.4°C · 287 mm rain
- Gejiu in AugustChina · 232 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 17.3°C · 266 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 Pu'er) is explained once on the Pu'er year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.