Climate averages 1991–2020

Qujing weather
in August.

A warm, wet month: the joint 3rd warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 23.4°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 15.9°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 174 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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August is a warm month in Qujing: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 15.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 174 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes August a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 02 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhongshu (108 km away). In August its highs average 24.1°C, 0.7°C warmer than Qujing, with 197 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qujing ranks joint 859th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 590th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Qujing is 5.8°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 21.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 174 mm to 129 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Qujing climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Qujing, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 13.3°C3.5°C3.5°C417.410.711 h
February 16.1°C5.2°C5.2°C336.511.311 h
March 20.4°C8.6°C8.6°C568.212.012 h
April 22.9°C11.5°C11.5°C7011.212.713 h
May 23.7°C14.0°C14.0°C12815.613.413 h
June 23.4°C16.0°C16.0°C24222.913.714 h
July 23.5°C16.4°C16.4°C21424.413.614 h
August, selected 23.4°C15.9°C15.9°C17422.213.013 h
September 21.5°C14.4°C14.4°C12918.212.312 h
October 18.5°C11.6°C11.6°C9115.311.612 h
November 15.8°C7.3°C7.3°C367.810.911 h
December 12.7°C3.9°C3.9°C286.710.611 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

Distance from Qujing

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Qujing) is explained once on the Qujing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.