Climate averages 1991–2020
Qingdao weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Qingdao: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 163 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 32 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jimo (37 km away). In August its highs average 28.7°C, 1.5°C warmer than Qingdao, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qingdao ranks joint 696th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 472nd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Qingdao is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.9°C to 24.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 163 mm to 85 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
Qingdao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.5°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 13 | 2.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 4.8°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 8.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 28 | 4.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 44 | 5.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 18.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 71 | 5.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 21.9°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 80 | 5.9 | 14.615 h |
| July | 25.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 158 | 10.5 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 27.2°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 163 | 11.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 24.3°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 85 | 6.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.2°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 44 | 5.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 39 | 5.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 6.0°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 20 | 3.6 | 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
- Jimo in AugustChina · 37 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 23.0°C · 163 mm rain
- Jiaozhou in AugustChina · 42 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 172 mm rain
- Yinzhu in AugustChina · 42 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 23.6°C · 174 mm rain
- Nancun in AugustChina · 57 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.9°C · 164 mm rain
- Baicheng, China in AugustChina · 61 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.3°C · 166 mm rain
- Linjiacun in AugustChina · 66 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.3°C · 181 mm rain
- Gaomi in AugustChina · 67 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.0°C · 159 mm rain
- Jiangshan in AugustChina · 69 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.9°C · 170 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 Qingdao) is explained once on the Qingdao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.