Climate averages 1991–2020
Yuzhou weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Yuzhou: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 22.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 142 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes August a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 26 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xuchang (39 km away). In August its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Yuzhou, with 144 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yuzhou ranks joint 434th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 288th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Yuzhou is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 26.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 142 mm to 86 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
Yuzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.9°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 12 | 2.6 | 10.210 h |
| February | 10.5°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 16 | 3.2 | 10.911 h |
| March | 15.9°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 31 | 5.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.5°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 40 | 5.6 | 13.013 h |
| May | 27.8°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 61 | 7.0 | 13.914 h |
| June | 31.7°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 94 | 8.3 | 14.414 h |
| July | 31.7°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 182 | 14.0 | 14.214 h |
| August, selected | 30.0°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 142 | 14.2 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.2°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 86 | 8.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 44 | 5.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 14.6°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 33 | 5.0 | 10.410 h |
| December | 8.7°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 12 | 2.7 | 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
- Xuchang in AugustChina · 39 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 22.6°C · 144 mm rain
- Pingdingshan in AugustChina · 49 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 22.7°C · 147 mm rain
- Zhengzhou in AugustChina · 69 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Luohe in AugustChina · 83 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 22.8°C · 155 mm rain
- Yunyang in AugustChina · 105 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.4°C · 151 mm rain
- Kaifeng in AugustChina · 105 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.5°C · 143 mm rain
- Fangcheng in AugustChina · 109 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.4°C · 163 mm rain
- Luoyang in AugustChina · 111 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.2°C · 132 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 Yuzhou) is explained once on the Yuzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.