Climate averages 1991–2020
Zunyi weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Zunyi: daytime highs average 28.5°C and nights cool to about 20.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 132 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 07 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Loushanguan (51 km away). In August its highs average 28.0°C, 0.6°C cooler than Zunyi, with 136 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zunyi ranks joint 620th of 884 for the warmest August highs and joint 196th of 884 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 884 cities is 29.3°C; Zunyi is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.7°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 132 mm to 118 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
Zunyi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 68 | 15.1 | 10.611 h |
| February | 10.2°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 68 | 14.5 | 11.211 h |
| March | 14.5°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 113 | 19.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.7°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 159 | 19.5 | 12.813 h |
| May | 23.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 225 | 20.3 | 13.514 h |
| June | 25.9°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 242 | 20.4 | 13.914 h |
| July | 28.3°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 185 | 17.5 | 13.714 h |
| August, selected | 28.5°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 132 | 15.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 118 | 13.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 18.9°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 145 | 17.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 14.5°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 94 | 14.6 | 10.811 h |
| December | 9.2°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 61 | 13.8 | 10.410 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
- Loushanguan in AugustChina · 51 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.6°C · 136 mm rain
- Gulin in AugustChina · 115 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.4°C · 154 mm rain
- Guiyang in AugustChina · 124 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Wansheng in AugustChina · 142 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 23.8°C · 168 mm rain
- Gunan in AugustChina · 151 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.2°C · 153 mm rain
- Xuyong in AugustChina · 154 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 23.2°C · 210 mm rain
- Kaili in AugustChina · 162 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 21.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Hejiang in AugustChina · 163 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 24.3°C · 163 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 Zunyi) is explained once on the Zunyi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.