Climate averages 1991–2020
Taiyuan weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Taiyuan: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 99 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 38 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinzhong (27 km away). In August its highs average 27.6°C, about as warm as Taiyuan, with 86 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Taiyuan ranks joint 657th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 77th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Taiyuan is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 23.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 99 mm to 65 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
Taiyuan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.5°C-8.6°C | -8.6°C | 3.5 | 1.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 6.4°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 7.2 | 2.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 12.4°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 16 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 30 | 5.0 | 13.213 h |
| May | 25.3°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 36 | 6.1 | 14.214 h |
| June | 29.2°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 55 | 9.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 29.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 110 | 12.9 | 14.515 h |
| August, selected | 27.9°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 99 | 11.3 | 13.614 h |
| September | 23.5°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 65 | 7.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.5°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 35 | 5.6 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.7°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 16 | 3.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 3.4°C-6.6°C | -6.6°C | 3.2 | 1.1 | 9.610 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
- Jinzhong in AugustChina · 27 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 17.5°C · 86 mm rain
- Xinzhou in AugustChina · 62 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.3°C · 103 mm rain
- Yangquan in AugustChina · 88 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.5°C · 113 mm rain
- Yuanping in AugustChina · 96 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 16.9°C · 113 mm rain
- Jiexiu in AugustChina · 110 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 18.9°C · 116 mm rain
- Lüliang in AugustChina · 131 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 17.9°C · 122 mm rain
- Shuozhou in AugustChina · 161 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 14.7°C · 130 mm rain
- Shijiazhuang in AugustChina · 169 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 20.9°C · 128 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 Taiyuan) is explained once on the Taiyuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.