Climate averages 1991–2020
Myŏnggan-dong weather
in August.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Myŏnggan-dong: daytime highs average 25.4°C and nights cool to about 18.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 173 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes August a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 49 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hwasŏng (13 km away). In August its highs average 25.5°C, about as warm as Myŏnggan-dong, with 173 mm of rain.
Among the 38 cities listed in North Korea, Myŏnggan-dong ranks 34th of 38 for the warmest August highs and joint 3rd of 38 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 38 cities is 27.1°C; Myŏnggan-dong is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.2°C to 21.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 173 mm to 109 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Myŏnggan-dong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3.6°C-13.1°C | -13.1°C | 26 | 6.6 | 9.610 h |
| February | -1.1°C-12.1°C | -12.1°C | 24 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| March | 4.4°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 31 | 6.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.4°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 47 | 7.9 | 13.313 h |
| May | 18.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 73 | 11.3 | 14.514 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 77 | 12.5 | 15.115 h |
| July | 25.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 143 | 15.4 | 14.815 h |
| August, selected | 25.4°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 173 | 16.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 21.2°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 109 | 8.9 | 12.513 h |
| October | 15.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 55 | 7.1 | 11.111 h |
| November | 6.5°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 50 | 8.1 | 9.910 h |
| December | -0.9°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 40 | 8.8 | 9.39 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Hwasŏng in AugustNorth Korea · 13 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 19.0°C · 173 mm rain
- Ŏrang in AugustNorth Korea · 37 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 19.5°C · 174 mm rain
- Chongjin in AugustNorth Korea · 77 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 19.3°C · 215 mm rain
- Changam-ch’on in AugustNorth Korea · 84 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 19.4°C · 177 mm rain
- Hyesan in AugustNorth Korea · 114 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 15.1°C · 136 mm rain
- Helong in AugustChina · 161 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 16.9°C · 160 mm rain
- Sinp’o in AugustNorth Korea · 164 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 20.9°C · 175 mm rain
- Ŭndŏk in AugustNorth Korea · 169 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 19.1°C · 162 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 Myŏnggan-dong) is explained once on the Myŏnggan-dong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Hwasŏng lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.