Climate averages 1991–2020
Wushan weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Wushan: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 206 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yong’an (40 km away). In August its highs average 31.5°C, about as warm as Wushan, with 148 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wushan ranks joint 198th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 719th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Wushan is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.2°C to 27.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 206 mm to 165 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
Wushan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 45 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 59 | 10.0 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 98 | 13.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.9°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 136 | 14.1 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.7°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 190 | 15.0 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 261 | 15.6 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 312 | 21.4 | 14.014 h |
| August, selected | 31.2°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 206 | 17.7 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.0°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 165 | 13.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 129 | 12.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 85 | 11.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 43 | 8.8 | 10.210 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
- Yong’an in AugustChina · 40 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 148 mm rain
- Chengxiang in AugustChina · 46 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 166 mm rain
- Yezhou in AugustChina · 55 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 131 mm rain
- Enshi in AugustChina · 94 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.7°C · 159 mm rain
- Lichuan in AugustChina · 131 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 230 mm rain
- Yichang in AugustChina · 140 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.8°C · 161 mm rain
- Hanfeng in AugustChina · 141 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.1°C · 142 mm rain
- Wanzhou in AugustChina · 145 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 25.3°C · 164 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 Wushan) is explained once on the Wushan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.