Climate averages 1991–2020

Shouguang weather
in August.

A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 30.0°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 22.0°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 155 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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August is a hot month in Shouguang: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 22.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 155 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 34 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Heguan (15 km away). In August its highs average 30.1°C, about as warm as Shouguang, with 151 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shouguang ranks joint 434th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 404th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Shouguang is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 3.4°C to 26.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 155 mm to 53 mm.

The annual picture

August 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 2000

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

Every month, side by side

Shouguang climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Shouguang, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 4.1°C-5.6°C-5.6°C7.82.09.910 h
February 7.5°C-3.5°C-3.5°C143.010.811 h
March 14.0°C1.3°C1.3°C193.611.912 h
April 21.2°C8.3°C8.3°C314.913.113 h
May 26.9°C14.5°C14.5°C566.014.114 h
June 31.1°C19.7°C19.7°C657.514.615 h
July 31.8°C23.0°C23.0°C15612.414.414 h
August, selected 30.0°C22.0°C22.0°C15511.813.614 h
September 26.6°C16.8°C16.8°C535.712.512 h
October 21.0°C10.3°C10.3°C274.211.311 h
November 12.9°C2.6°C2.6°C264.010.210 h
December 5.9°C-3.6°C-3.6°C9.72.19.710 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

August in nearby cities

Distance from Shouguang

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