Climate averages 1991–2020
Songcheng weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Songcheng: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 25.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 283 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 05 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fu’an (42 km away). In August its highs average 31.8°C, 1.3°C warmer than Songcheng, with 246 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Songcheng ranks joint 326th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 828th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Songcheng is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.2°C to 28.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 283 mm to 151 mm.
The annual picture
August 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
Songcheng climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.4°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 55 | 7.5 | 10.711 h |
| February | 14.2°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 67 | 9.8 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.0°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 127 | 14.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.4°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 124 | 14.8 | 12.813 h |
| May | 25.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 191 | 16.1 | 13.513 h |
| June | 28.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 292 | 18.8 | 13.814 h |
| July | 30.9°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 213 | 18.2 | 13.714 h |
| August, selected | 30.5°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 283 | 23.8 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.4°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 151 | 15.6 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.5°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 61 | 7.0 | 11.512 h |
| November | 20.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 65 | 7.8 | 10.811 h |
| December | 15.5°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 50 | 6.5 | 10.510 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
- Fu’an in AugustChina · 42 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.4°C · 246 mm rain
- Ningde in AugustChina · 53 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 25.0°C · 287 mm rain
- Fuding in AugustChina · 54 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.4°C · 301 mm rain
- Jinxiang in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 26.0°C · 251 mm rain
- Fuzhou in AugustChina · 115 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.1°C · 240 mm rain
- Rui’an in AugustChina · 119 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 25.8°C · 228 mm rain
- Wenzhou in AugustChina · 141 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 25.3°C · 254 mm rain
- Lishui in AugustChina · 176 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 24.8°C · 147 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 Songcheng) is explained once on the Songcheng year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.