Climate averages 1991–2020

Shanting 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 30.5°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 23.2°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 239 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Shanting · average highYear overview

July is a hot month in Shanting: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 23.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 239 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 16 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Chengtangcun (24 km away). In July its highs average 30.7°C, about as warm as Shanting, with 220 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shanting ranks joint 521st of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 742nd of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Shanting is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 239 mm to 180 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

Shanting climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Shanting, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 5.2°C-3.5°C-3.5°C143.010.110 h
February 8.3°C-1.3°C-1.3°C193.710.911 h
March 14.0°C2.9°C2.9°C314.611.912 h
April 20.7°C9.3°C9.3°C436.013.013 h
May 25.9°C15.1°C15.1°C676.414.014 h
June 29.7°C19.9°C19.9°C1057.914.514 h
July, selected 30.5°C23.2°C23.2°C23914.814.314 h
August 29.5°C22.5°C22.5°C18014.013.513 h
September 25.8°C17.5°C17.5°C757.112.412 h
October 20.5°C11.3°C11.3°C374.811.311 h
November 13.2°C4.1°C4.1°C304.310.410 h
December 6.7°C-1.8°C-1.8°C132.79.810 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 Shanting

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