Climate averages 1991–2020

Xigang weather
in August.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 27.5°C Daytime mean, August
Average low 17.1°C Night-time mean, August
Rainfall 52 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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August is a warm month in Xigang: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 17.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes August a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 40 min on an average August day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Yinchuan (11 km away). In August its highs average 27.8°C, about as warm as Xigang, with 52 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xigang ranks joint 676th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 41st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Xigang is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.

From August to September, average highs fall by 4.9°C to 22.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 52 mm to 41 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. -15-10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Xigang climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Xigang, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 0.6°C-10.7°C-10.7°C1.70.59.810 h
February 4.6°C-7.5°C-7.5°C3.31.010.711 h
March 11.2°C-2.4°C-2.4°C9.52.211.912 h
April 18.6°C4.0°C4.0°C132.313.213 h
May 24.0°C10.0°C10.0°C223.714.214 h
June 28.1°C15.4°C15.4°C324.514.815 h
July 29.4°C18.2°C18.2°C546.514.615 h
August, selected 27.5°C17.1°C17.1°C527.613.714 h
September 22.6°C12.1°C12.1°C416.512.512 h
October 16.3°C4.7°C4.7°C163.311.211 h
November 8.6°C-2.8°C-2.8°C5.91.310.110 h
December 1.9°C-8.5°C-8.5°C1.20.49.510 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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 Xigang

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

Yinchuan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.