Climate averages 1991–2020

Zhangjiajie weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.1°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 24.6°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 317 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Zhangjiajie: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 24.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 317 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 49 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Jishou (116 km away). In July its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Zhangjiajie, with 295 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhangjiajie ranks joint 390th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 867th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Zhangjiajie is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 31.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 317 mm to 165 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Zhangjiajie climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Zhangjiajie, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	8.8°C2.7°C	2.7°C	71	10.4	10.511 h
February	11.3°C4.7°C	4.7°C	96	11.4	11.111 h
March	15.8°C8.5°C	8.5°C	150	15.7	12.012 h
April	21.5°C13.8°C	13.8°C	220	16.2	12.913 h
May	25.7°C18.4°C	18.4°C	247	16.5	13.614 h
June	28.7°C22.1°C	22.1°C	293	18.2	14.014 h
July, selected	31.1°C24.6°C	24.6°C	317	19.9	13.814 h
August	31.0°C24.3°C	24.3°C	165	16.9	13.213 h
September	27.3°C20.6°C	20.6°C	111	11.3	12.412 h
October	21.9°C15.5°C	15.5°C	115	11.4	11.511 h
November	16.6°C10.1°C	10.1°C	92	10.4	10.711 h
December	11.1°C4.7°C	4.7°C	46	8.3	10.310 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.

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July in nearby cities

Distance from Zhangjiajie

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Zhangjiajie) is explained once on the Zhangjiajie year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.