Climate averages 1991–2020
Shache weather
in August.
A hot, fairly dry month: the joint 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Shache: daytime highs average 30.9°C and nights cool to about 19.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 15 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kashgar (159 km away). In August its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Shache, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shache ranks joint 259th of 884 for the warmest August highs and 11th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Shache is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 15 mm to 13 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Shache climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.2°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 1.2 | 0.5 | 9.810 h |
| February | 6.6°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 1.6 | 0.5 | 10.711 h |
| March | 15.4°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 4.0 | 0.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.2°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 4.7 | 1.2 | 13.213 h |
| May | 27.3°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 14 | 2.5 | 14.214 h |
| June | 30.9°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 10 | 2.2 | 14.815 h |
| July | 32.5°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 12 | 2.3 | 14.615 h |
| August, selected | 30.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 15 | 3.2 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.5°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 13 | 2.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 19.5°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 3.0 | 0.9 | 11.211 h |
| November | 10.9°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 2.5 | 0.5 | 10.110 h |
| December | 2.8°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 0.9 | 0.4 | 9.510 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Kashgar in AugustChina · 159 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 19.2°C · 26 mm rain
- Artux in AugustChina · 170 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 14 mm rain
- Tumxuk in AugustChina · 225 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 20.8°C · 13 mm rain
- Kageleke in AugustChina · 242 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 19.6°C · 14 mm rain
- Gujangbagh in AugustChina · 278 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 18.8°C · 18 mm rain
- Aqsu in AugustChina · 403 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 21 mm rain
- Wensu in AugustChina · 408 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 21 mm rain
- Ālā'ĕr in AugustChina · 418 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 20.3°C · 12 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 Shache) is explained once on the Shache year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.