Climate averages 1991–2020

Zigong 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 23.9°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 230 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Zigong: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 230 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 50 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Neijiang (39 km away). In July its highs average 30.8°C, about as warm as Zigong, with 208 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zigong ranks joint 390th of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 686th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Zigong is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 30.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 230 mm to 210 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

Zigong climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Zigong, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	11.1°C5.1°C	5.1°C	22	7.2	10.510 h
February	13.7°C6.9°C	6.9°C	25	7.8	11.111 h
March	18.2°C10.3°C	10.3°C	40	9.9	12.012 h
April	23.5°C14.8°C	14.8°C	68	12.4	12.913 h
May	27.0°C18.6°C	18.6°C	92	13.4	13.614 h
June	29.0°C21.7°C	21.7°C	153	16.0	14.014 h
July, selected	31.1°C23.9°C	23.9°C	230	20.3	13.814 h
August	30.8°C23.7°C	23.7°C	210	18.9	13.213 h
September	26.7°C20.4°C	20.4°C	114	14.9	12.412 h
October	21.3°C16.1°C	16.1°C	67	14.8	11.511 h
November	17.2°C11.5°C	11.5°C	37	8.9	10.711 h
December	12.2°C6.8°C	6.8°C	23	6.9	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.

Compare places

July in nearby cities

Distance from Zigong

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