Climate averages 1991–2020

Wulong weather
in August.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Approximate: the model cell is 462 m higher than the city, so the temperatures are adjusted up by 3.0°C. For places not marked Approximate, the cell is within 400 m of the place's elevation.

Average high 31.8°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 25.2°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 162 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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August is a hot month in Wulong: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 25.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 162 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 12 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hanjia (39 km away). In August its highs average 30.9°C, 0.9°C cooler than Wulong, with 157 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wulong ranks joint 96th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 465th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Wulong is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 4.3°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 162 mm to 137 mm.

The annual picture

August in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 05101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

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

Every month, side by side

Wulong climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Wulong, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 9.8°C4.5°C4.5°C5712.210.510 h
February 12.2°C6.6°C6.6°C6512.911.111 h
March 16.7°C10.3°C10.3°C10916.712.012 h
April 22.1°C15.3°C15.3°C15817.812.913 h
May 26.1°C19.5°C19.5°C20919.213.614 h
June 29.1°C22.9°C22.9°C21518.714.014 h
July 31.6°C25.2°C25.2°C19319.213.814 h
August, selected 31.8°C25.2°C25.2°C16216.613.213 h
September 27.5°C21.6°C21.6°C13713.812.412 h
October 21.7°C16.6°C16.6°C14516.711.511 h
November 16.8°C11.6°C11.6°C9913.710.711 h
December 11.6°C6.4°C6.4°C5411.910.310 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

Distance from Wulong

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