Climate averages 1991–2020

Shangqiu weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 31.7°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 23.8°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 203 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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July is a hot month in Shangqiu: daytime highs average 31.7°C and nights cool to about 23.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 203 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 13 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Shancheng (58 km away). In July its highs average 31.6°C, about as warm as Shangqiu, with 204 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shangqiu ranks joint 196th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 560th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Shangqiu is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 203 mm to 148 mm.

The annual picture

July 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. -10-505101520253035 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

Shangqiu climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Shangqiu, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 6.6°C-3.2°C-3.2°C143.010.110 h
February 10.0°C-0.6°C-0.6°C183.110.911 h
March 15.5°C4.2°C4.2°C324.511.912 h
April 21.9°C10.3°C10.3°C435.513.013 h
May 27.3°C16.1°C16.1°C626.413.914 h
June 31.4°C21.1°C21.1°C957.714.414 h
July, selected 31.7°C23.8°C23.8°C20313.914.214 h
August 30.3°C22.8°C22.8°C14812.813.413 h
September 26.7°C17.9°C17.9°C817.512.412 h
October 22.1°C11.9°C11.9°C384.611.311 h
November 14.7°C4.7°C4.7°C314.610.410 h
December 8.3°C-1.3°C-1.3°C133.09.910 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Shangqiu

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 Shangqiu) is explained once on the Shangqiu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.