Climate averages 1991–2020

Shantou weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 30.2°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 26.0°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 188 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Shantou: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 26.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 25 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Chenghua (15 km away). In July its highs average 29.9°C, about as warm as Shantou, with 206 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shantou ranks joint 552nd of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 480th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Shantou is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 188 mm to 238 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Shantou climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Shantou, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	17.8°C11.9°C	11.9°C	45	6.3	10.911 h
February	18.5°C12.8°C	12.8°C	64	9.7	11.411 h
March	21.0°C15.3°C	15.3°C	79	11.2	12.012 h
April	24.4°C19.0°C	19.0°C	113	11.3	12.713 h
May	27.1°C22.6°C	22.6°C	185	15.9	13.313 h
June	29.1°C25.2°C	25.2°C	239	20.6	13.514 h
July, selected	30.2°C26.0°C	26.0°C	188	17.7	13.413 h
August	30.0°C25.8°C	25.8°C	238	18.7	12.913 h
September	29.2°C24.7°C	24.7°C	156	13.3	12.312 h
October	26.9°C21.6°C	21.6°C	56	5.2	11.612 h
November	23.7°C17.8°C	17.8°C	59	5.5	11.011 h
December	19.6°C13.5°C	13.5°C	51	5.8	10.711 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 Shantou

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