Climate averages 1991–2020
Yangshuo weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Yangshuo: daytime highs average 31.3°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 154 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Guilin (59 km away). In August its highs average 30.8°C, 0.5°C cooler than Yangshuo, with 144 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yangshuo ranks joint 178th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 391st of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Yangshuo is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.4°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 154 mm to 79 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
Yangshuo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.8°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 82 | 12.4 | 10.811 h |
| February | 16.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 81 | 13.8 | 11.311 h |
| March | 19.0°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 174 | 20.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.9°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 227 | 20.4 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.2°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 303 | 21.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 309 | 22.2 | 13.614 h |
| July | 30.8°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 194 | 17.8 | 13.514 h |
| August, selected | 31.3°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 154 | 16.9 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.9°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 79 | 10.5 | 12.312 h |
| October | 26.4°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 67 | 7.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 21.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 74 | 8.7 | 11.011 h |
| December | 15.9°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 59 | 8.7 | 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
- Guilin in AugustChina · 59 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 24.2°C · 144 mm rain
- Hezhou in AugustChina · 117 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.6°C · 190 mm rain
- Liuzhou in AugustChina · 121 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.0°C · 194 mm rain
- Guiping in AugustChina · 160 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.1°C · 243 mm rain
- Wuzhou in AugustChina · 166 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.2°C · 184 mm rain
- Laibin in AugustChina · 172 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.0°C · 202 mm rain
- Nanfeng in AugustChina · 177 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.1°C · 205 mm rain
- Yizhou in AugustChina · 187 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.5°C · 202 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 Yangshuo) is explained once on the Yangshuo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.