Climate averages 1991–2020

Zitong weather
in July.

A hot, very wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 31.6°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 24.3°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 196 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a hot month in Zitong: daytime highs average 31.6°C and nights cool to about 24.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 196 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 53 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bachuan (42 km away). In July its highs average 31.6°C, about as warm as Zitong, with 187 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zitong ranks joint 223rd of 884 for the warmest July highs and joint 529th of 884 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 884 cities is 30.0°C; Zitong is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 31.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 196 mm to 169 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

Zitong climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Zitong, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	11.0°C4.5°C	4.5°C	23	6.9	10.410 h
February	13.5°C6.3°C	6.3°C	26	6.9	11.111 h
March	17.8°C9.7°C	9.7°C	51	11.0	12.012 h
April	23.0°C14.2°C	14.2°C	92	12.2	12.913 h
May	26.3°C18.1°C	18.1°C	121	14.0	13.714 h
June	28.8°C21.4°C	21.4°C	171	14.6	14.114 h
July, selected	31.6°C24.3°C	24.3°C	196	16.6	13.914 h
August	31.7°C24.3°C	24.3°C	169	15.2	13.213 h
September	27.0°C20.5°C	20.5°C	121	13.7	12.412 h
October	21.5°C15.8°C	15.8°C	92	14.9	11.511 h
November	17.2°C11.0°C	11.0°C	51	9.1	10.711 h
December	12.2°C6.2°C	6.2°C	28	7.1	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 Zitong

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