Climate averages 1991–2020
Songlou weather
in July.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Songlou: daytime highs average 31.5°C and nights cool to about 23.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 205 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 14 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huashan (14 km away). In July its highs average 31.4°C, about as warm as Songlou, with 215 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Songlou ranks joint 259th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 568th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Songlou is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 205 mm to 167 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Songlou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.4°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 16 | 3.2 | 10.110 h |
| February | 9.7°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 20 | 3.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 15.2°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 32 | 4.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.7°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 45 | 5.6 | 13.013 h |
| May | 27.0°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 65 | 6.2 | 13.914 h |
| June | 31.0°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 100 | 7.8 | 14.414 h |
| July, selected | 31.5°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 205 | 14.4 | 14.214 h |
| August | 30.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 167 | 13.5 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.6°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 76 | 7.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.9°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 40 | 4.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 31 | 4.8 | 10.410 h |
| December | 8.1°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 14 | 3.3 | 9.910 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
- Huashan in JulyChina · 14 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.7°C · 215 mm rain
- Fengcheng (Jiangsu), China in JulyChina · 15 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 23.7°C · 208 mm rain
- Zhangzhai in JulyChina · 32 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 23.8°C · 219 mm rain
- Shouxian in JulyChina · 33 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.8°C · 208 mm rain
- Huankou in JulyChina · 34 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 215 mm rain
- Peicheng in JulyChina · 35 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.8°C · 219 mm rain
- Anguo in JulyChina · 35 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 215 mm rain
- Zhangzhuang in JulyChina · 37 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.8°C · 219 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 Songlou) is explained once on the Songlou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.