Climate averages 1991–2020
Xiongzhou 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.
August is a hot month in Xiongzhou: daytime highs average 32.6°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 158 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 01 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shixing (30 km away). In August its highs average 32.4°C, about as warm as Xiongzhou, with 217 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xiongzhou ranks joint 39th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 428th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Xiongzhou is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 158 mm to 106 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
Xiongzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.0°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 62 | 8.4 | 10.811 h |
| February | 16.3°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 72 | 11.0 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 152 | 16.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.6°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 195 | 17.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 239 | 19.4 | 13.413 h |
| June | 30.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 242 | 19.5 | 13.714 h |
| July | 32.5°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 128 | 16.1 | 13.514 h |
| August, selected | 32.6°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 158 | 17.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 30.1°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 106 | 11.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 26.6°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 50 | 6.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 21.3°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 55 | 6.8 | 10.911 h |
| December | 15.6°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 47 | 6.2 | 10.611 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
- Shixing in AugustChina · 30 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 24.9°C · 217 mm rain
- Shaoguan in AugustChina · 80 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 24.8°C · 208 mm rain
- Maba in AugustChina · 86 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.9°C · 208 mm rain
- Lecheng in AugustChina · 96 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.5°C · 178 mm rain
- Ganzhou in AugustChina · 103 kmHigh 32.9°C · Low 25.2°C · 175 mm rain
- Chenzhou in AugustChina · 148 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 24.7°C · 176 mm rain
- Heyuan in AugustChina · 159 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.2°C · 236 mm rain
- Huacheng in AugustChina · 177 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 185 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 Xiongzhou) is explained once on the Xiongzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.