Climate averages 1991–2020

Zhicheng 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 31.8°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 24.9°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 265 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Zhicheng: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 24.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 265 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes July a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 54 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhijiang (28 km away). In July its highs average 31.7°C, about as warm as Zhicheng, with 246 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhicheng ranks joint 168th of 884 for the warmest July highs and 829th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Zhicheng is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 265 mm to 188 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

Zhicheng climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Zhicheng, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	9.1°C1.8°C	1.8°C	43	7.2	10.410 h
February	11.8°C3.7°C	3.7°C	54	8.4	11.111 h
March	16.4°C7.5°C	7.5°C	85	11.6	12.012 h
April	22.3°C13.0°C	13.0°C	117	12.0	12.913 h
May	26.6°C17.9°C	17.9°C	171	13.4	13.714 h
June	29.5°C22.0°C	22.0°C	227	13.8	14.114 h
July, selected	31.8°C24.9°C	24.9°C	265	17.2	13.914 h
August	31.2°C24.4°C	24.4°C	188	16.1	13.213 h
September	27.4°C20.2°C	20.2°C	110	10.2	12.412 h
October	22.4°C14.8°C	14.8°C	83	9.8	11.511 h
November	16.8°C9.2°C	9.2°C	60	8.4	10.711 h
December	11.2°C3.9°C	3.9°C	30	6.1	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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Zhicheng

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 Zhicheng) is explained once on the Zhicheng year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.