Climate averages 1991–2020

Shaoxing weather
in July.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 33.3°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 25.5°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 178 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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July is a hot month in Shaoxing: daytime highs average 33.3°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 178 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes July a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 52 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Shangyu (28 km away). In July its highs average 33.3°C, about as warm as Shaoxing, with 172 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoxing ranks joint 23rd of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 413th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Shaoxing is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 32.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 178 mm to 156 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. -50510152025303540 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 3500

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

Every month, side by side

Shaoxing climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Shaoxing, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 9.0°C1.5°C1.5°C8310.410.410 h
February 11.4°C3.0°C3.0°C7810.711.111 h
March 15.7°C6.6°C6.6°C12814.212.012 h
April 21.6°C11.9°C11.9°C13813.112.913 h
May 26.2°C17.0°C17.0°C17113.213.614 h
June 28.7°C21.2°C21.2°C31517.214.014 h
July, selected 33.3°C25.5°C25.5°C17813.713.914 h
August 32.7°C25.3°C25.3°C15616.113.213 h
September 28.1°C21.0°C21.0°C11112.012.412 h
October 23.2°C15.4°C15.4°C666.911.511 h
November 17.7°C9.6°C9.6°C708.710.711 h
December 11.4°C3.4°C3.4°C637.810.310 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 Shaoxing

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