Climate averages 1991–2020
Tianshui weather
in August.
A warm, 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 warm month in Tianshui: daytime highs average 27.1°C and nights cool to about 18.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 122 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 27 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Beidao (14 km away). In August its highs average 27.0°C, about as warm as Tianshui, with 116 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tianshui ranks joint 700th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 140th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Tianshui is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.1°C to 21.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 122 mm to 116 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
Tianshui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 11 | 3.8 | 10.110 h |
| February | 6.8°C-2.5°C | -2.5°C | 16 | 4.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 31 | 7.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.7°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 50 | 8.6 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.6°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 77 | 10.8 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 93 | 10.0 | 14.414 h |
| July | 28.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 123 | 12.2 | 14.214 h |
| August, selected | 27.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 122 | 11.9 | 13.413 h |
| September | 21.9°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 116 | 13.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 16.5°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 75 | 12.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 10.6°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 26 | 6.3 | 10.410 h |
| December | 4.9°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 9.7 | 2.9 | 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
August in nearby cities
- Beidao in AugustChina · 14 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.1°C · 116 mm rain
- Xingguo in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 113 mm rain
- Gangu Chengguanzhen in AugustChina · 42 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 17.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Xinxing in AugustChina · 44 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Pan’an in AugustChina · 61 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Luomen in AugustChina · 68 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Pingliang in AugustChina · 137 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.9°C · 148 mm rain
- Baoji in AugustChina · 139 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 20.1°C · 181 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 Tianshui) is explained once on the Tianshui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.