Climate averages 1991–2020
Shaping weather
in September.
A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a hot month in Shaping: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes September a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 18 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jiangmen (24 km away). In September its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Shaping, with 210 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaping ranks joint 16th of 884 for the warmest September highs and joint 819th of 884 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 884 cities is 25.7°C; Shaping is 4.6°C warmer than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 188 mm to 64 mm.
The annual picture
September 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
Shaping climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.7°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 37 | 5.7 | 10.911 h |
| February | 20.4°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 49 | 8.4 | 11.411 h |
| March | 23.5°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 98 | 13.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 175 | 15.5 | 12.713 h |
| May | 29.3°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 257 | 20.8 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.8°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 288 | 22.0 | 13.514 h |
| July | 31.6°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 215 | 21.0 | 13.413 h |
| August | 31.4°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 258 | 22.5 | 12.913 h |
| September, selected | 30.3°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 188 | 16.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.1°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 64 | 7.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.6°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 35 | 5.4 | 11.111 h |
| December | 20.1°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 36 | 4.6 | 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
September in nearby cities
- Jiangmen in SeptemberChina · 24 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.2°C · 210 mm rain
- Daliang in SeptemberChina · 31 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 195 mm rain
- Foshan in SeptemberChina · 34 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.3°C · 177 mm rain
- Nantou, China in SeptemberChina · 35 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 24.5°C · 195 mm rain
- Sanshui in SeptemberChina · 43 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 165 mm rain
- Shiqiao in SeptemberChina · 45 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 177 mm rain
- Guangzhou in SeptemberChina · 49 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.1°C · 177 mm rain
- Zhongshan in SeptemberChina · 51 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.8°C · 197 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 Shaping) is explained once on the Shaping year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.