Climate averages 1991–2020
Shangsi weather
in August.
A hot, very wet 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 Shangsi: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 24.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 265 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes August a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 54 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fangchenggang (58 km away). In August its highs average 30.6°C, about as warm as Shangsi, with 353 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shangsi ranks joint 326th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 805th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Shangsi is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 265 mm to 163 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
Shangsi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 38 | 6.8 | 10.911 h |
| February | 19.4°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 28 | 5.9 | 11.411 h |
| March | 22.9°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 59 | 10.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 27.1°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 83 | 12.9 | 12.613 h |
| May | 29.3°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 197 | 19.4 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.5°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 219 | 21.7 | 13.513 h |
| July | 30.8°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 227 | 21.8 | 13.313 h |
| August, selected | 30.5°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 265 | 23.6 | 12.913 h |
| September | 29.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 163 | 16.6 | 12.312 h |
| October | 26.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 80 | 9.0 | 11.712 h |
| November | 23.2°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 54 | 7.8 | 11.111 h |
| December | 18.7°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 38 | 6.4 | 10.811 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
- Fangchenggang in AugustChina · 58 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 25.8°C · 353 mm rain
- Dongxing in AugustChina · 67 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 26.0°C · 374 mm rain
- Chongzuo in AugustChina · 68 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.5°C · 258 mm rain
- Móng Cái in AugustVietnam · 70 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 26.1°C · 374 mm rain
- Qinzhou in AugustChina · 72 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 25.5°C · 299 mm rain
- Nanning in AugustChina · 81 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.9°C · 246 mm rain
- Xichang, China in AugustChina · 116 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 26.6°C · 341 mm rain
- Pingxiang, China in AugustChina · 126 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.1°C · 256 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 Shangsi) is explained once on the Shangsi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.