Climate averages 1991–2020
Yong’an 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 Yong’an: daytime highs average 31.5°C and nights cool to about 24.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 148 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes August a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 16 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wushan (40 km away). In August its highs average 31.2°C, about as warm as Yong’an, with 206 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yong’an ranks joint 134th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 335th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Yong’an is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.3°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 148 mm to 130 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
Yong’an climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.9°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 36 | 7.9 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.4°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 46 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.8°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 80 | 12.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 116 | 13.2 | 12.913 h |
| May | 25.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 153 | 13.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 29.0°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 198 | 13.7 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 218 | 16.5 | 13.914 h |
| August, selected | 31.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 148 | 13.1 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.2°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 130 | 12.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 104 | 11.4 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 73 | 10.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 36 | 8.0 | 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
- Wushan in AugustChina · 40 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.3°C · 206 mm rain
- Chengxiang in AugustChina · 43 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 24.2°C · 166 mm rain
- Yezhou in AugustChina · 53 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 131 mm rain
- Enshi in AugustChina · 80 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.7°C · 159 mm rain
- Lichuan in AugustChina · 99 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 230 mm rain
- Hanfeng in AugustChina · 102 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 25.1°C · 142 mm rain
- Wanzhou in AugustChina · 105 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 25.3°C · 164 mm rain
- Linjiang in AugustChina · 118 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 25.5°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 Yong’an) is explained once on the Yong’an year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.