Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhaoqing weather
in August.
A hot, very wet month: one of the 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 Zhaoqing: daytime highs average 31.4°C and nights cool to about 25.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 260 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 56 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lubu (23 km away). In August its highs average 31.5°C, about as warm as Zhaoqing, with 223 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhaoqing ranks joint 155th of 884 for the warmest August highs and 793rd of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Zhaoqing is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 260 mm to 173 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
Zhaoqing climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.1°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 47 | 6.6 | 10.911 h |
| February | 19.8°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 55 | 9.5 | 11.411 h |
| March | 22.8°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 118 | 15.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.5°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 198 | 17.2 | 12.713 h |
| May | 29.0°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 266 | 21.7 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.6°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 294 | 23.3 | 13.514 h |
| July | 31.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 223 | 21.1 | 13.413 h |
| August, selected | 31.4°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 260 | 22.4 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.1°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 173 | 16.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.9°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 62 | 6.7 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.2°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 41 | 5.8 | 11.111 h |
| December | 19.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 38 | 4.9 | 10.711 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
- Lubu in AugustChina · 23 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.5°C · 223 mm rain
- Yunfu in AugustChina · 45 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.1°C · 216 mm rain
- Sanshui in AugustChina · 46 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 25.3°C · 264 mm rain
- Shaping in AugustChina · 60 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.5°C · 258 mm rain
- Foshan in AugustChina · 69 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.7°C · 264 mm rain
- Changsha, China in AugustChina · 78 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 25.3°C · 272 mm rain
- Guangzhou in AugustChina · 81 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.6°C · 264 mm rain
- Jiangmen in AugustChina · 82 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 25.6°C · 283 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 Zhaoqing) is explained once on the Zhaoqing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.