Climate averages 1991–2020
Xingguo weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Xingguo: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 17.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 28 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tianshui (32 km away). In August its highs average 27.1°C, about as warm as Xingguo, with 122 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xingguo ranks joint 704th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 107th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Xingguo is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 113 mm to 108 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
Xingguo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.3°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 9.8 | 3.6 | 10.110 h |
| February | 6.6°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 13 | 3.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 27 | 6.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.5°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 43 | 7.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 22.5°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 67 | 9.4 | 14.014 h |
| June | 26.3°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 82 | 8.8 | 14.514 h |
| July | 28.2°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 110 | 10.9 | 14.314 h |
| August, selected | 27.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 113 | 10.8 | 13.513 h |
| September | 21.8°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 108 | 12.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 16.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 71 | 11.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 10.4°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 23 | 5.6 | 10.410 h |
| December | 4.9°C-4.0°C | -4.0°C | 7.7 | 2.4 | 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
- Tianshui in AugustChina · 32 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 122 mm rain
- Xinxing in AugustChina · 33 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Gangu Chengguanzhen in AugustChina · 34 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 17.6°C · 119 mm rain
- Beidao in AugustChina · 38 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.1°C · 116 mm rain
- Pan’an in AugustChina · 52 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Luomen in AugustChina · 60 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 115 mm rain
- Pingliang in AugustChina · 119 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.9°C · 148 mm rain
- Dingxi in AugustChina · 124 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 13.4°C · 103 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 Xingguo) is explained once on the Xingguo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.