Climate averages 1991–2020
Shangrao weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Shangrao: daytime highs average 33.2°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 131 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huayuan (74 km away). In August its highs average 33.3°C, about as warm as Shangrao, with 142 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shangrao ranks joint 7th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 187th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Shangrao is 4.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.2°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 131 mm to 74 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
Shangrao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 84 | 11.1 | 10.611 h |
| February | 13.9°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 97 | 12.2 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.5°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 181 | 16.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 223 | 16.4 | 12.813 h |
| May | 27.1°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 244 | 16.5 | 13.514 h |
| June | 29.3°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 361 | 18.5 | 13.914 h |
| July | 33.1°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 154 | 11.8 | 13.814 h |
| August, selected | 33.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 131 | 13.6 | 13.213 h |
| September | 30.0°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 74 | 8.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 56 | 6.7 | 11.512 h |
| November | 19.5°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 88 | 8.3 | 10.811 h |
| December | 13.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 67 | 8.1 | 10.410 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
- Huayuan in AugustChina · 74 kmHigh 33.3°C · Low 25.6°C · 142 mm rain
- Wuyishan in AugustChina · 77 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 24.9°C · 203 mm rain
- Yingtan in AugustChina · 95 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 25.6°C · 140 mm rain
- Quzhou in AugustChina · 106 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 25.1°C · 140 mm rain
- Jingdezhen in AugustChina · 118 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 25.4°C · 173 mm rain
- Xiugu in AugustChina · 129 kmHigh 33.0°C · Low 25.6°C · 158 mm rain
- Shaowu in AugustChina · 132 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 24.3°C · 177 mm rain
- Jinfeng in AugustChina · 133 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 26.0°C · 148 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 Shangrao) is explained once on the Shangrao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.