Climate averages 1991–2020

Shizuishan weather
in July.

A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 30.6°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 20.1°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 53 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Shizuishan · average highYear overview

July is a hot month in Shizuishan: daytime highs average 30.6°C and nights cool to about 20.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 53 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 37 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Shitanjing (28 km away). In July its highs average 29.0°C, 1.6°C cooler than Shizuishan, with 60 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shizuishan ranks joint 509th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 36th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Shizuishan is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 53 mm to 50 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. -15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Shizuishan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Shizuishan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -0.3°C-10.3°C-10.3°C1.50.59.810 h
February 4.4°C-6.2°C-6.2°C2.60.910.711 h
March 11.6°C-0.1°C-0.1°C8.31.911.912 h
April 19.4°C6.7°C6.7°C112.513.213 h
May 24.9°C12.5°C12.5°C223.814.314 h
June 29.2°C17.8°C17.8°C304.714.915 h
July, selected 30.6°C20.1°C20.1°C537.614.615 h
August 28.5°C18.7°C18.7°C507.413.714 h
September 23.3°C13.7°C13.7°C355.912.512 h
October 16.8°C6.6°C6.6°C132.711.211 h
November 8.3°C-1.3°C-1.3°C5.11.210.110 h
December 0.9°C-8.3°C-8.3°C1.00.39.59 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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 Shizuishan

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