Climate averages 1991–2020

Wenchang weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: one of the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.7°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 26.5°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 191 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Wenchang: daytime highs average 31.7°C and nights cool to about 26.5°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 191 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Qionghai (49 km away). In July its highs average 30.8°C, 0.9°C cooler than Wenchang, with 177 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wenchang ranks joint 196th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 502nd of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Wenchang is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 31.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 191 mm to 259 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Wenchang climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Wenchang, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	22.4°C17.5°C	17.5°C	26	7.1	11.111 h
February	23.9°C18.7°C	18.7°C	29	8.2	11.511 h
March	26.6°C21.0°C	21.0°C	40	10.0	12.012 h
April	29.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	77	13.0	12.613 h
May	31.1°C25.5°C	25.5°C	174	17.4	13.013 h
June	31.7°C26.6°C	26.6°C	165	18.3	13.313 h
July, selected	31.7°C26.5°C	26.5°C	191	20.1	13.213 h
August	31.1°C26.0°C	26.0°C	259	25.0	12.813 h
September	29.9°C24.9°C	24.9°C	247	22.2	12.312 h
October	27.9°C23.4°C	23.4°C	179	15.7	11.712 h
November	25.8°C21.6°C	21.6°C	58	10.4	11.211 h
December	22.8°C18.9°C	18.9°C	33	6.8	11.011 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

Distance from Wenchang

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