Climate averages 1991–2020
Yixing weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: the 2nd 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 Yixing: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 25.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 16 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 Licheng, China (33 km away). In August its highs average 31.4°C, about as warm as Yixing, with 158 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yixing ranks joint 238th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 662nd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Yixing is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.0°C to 27.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 184 mm to 92 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
Yixing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.5°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 75 | 9.5 | 10.410 h |
| February | 9.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 82 | 9.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.4°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 117 | 12.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.3°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 124 | 10.9 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.0°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 152 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 284 | 14.3 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.6°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 199 | 15.0 | 14.014 h |
| August, selected | 31.0°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 184 | 16.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.0°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 92 | 9.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.1°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 66 | 6.8 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 63 | 8.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 9.8°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 52 | 7.0 | 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
- Licheng, China in AugustChina · 33 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.0°C · 158 mm rain
- Changzhou in AugustChina · 48 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.9°C · 168 mm rain
- Wuxi in AugustChina · 50 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 25.2°C · 168 mm rain
- Huzhou in AugustChina · 60 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.5°C · 167 mm rain
- Taozhou in AugustChina · 64 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 24.4°C · 167 mm rain
- Suzhou in AugustChina · 74 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 25.5°C · 160 mm rain
- Jiangyin in AugustChina · 74 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.7°C · 172 mm rain
- Songling in AugustChina · 87 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.4°C · 159 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 Yixing) is explained once on the Yixing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.