Climate averages 1991–2020
Sunch’ŏn weather
in August.
A warm, very wet month: the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Sunch’ŏn: daytime highs average 27.8°C and nights cool to about 20.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 270 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is P’yŏngsŏng (21 km away). In August its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Sunch’ŏn, with 244 mm of rain.
Among the 38 cities listed in North Korea, Sunch’ŏn ranks 18th of 38 for the warmest August highs and 35th of 38 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 38 cities is 27.1°C; Sunch’ŏn is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 3.9°C to 23.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 270 mm to 110 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
Sunch’ŏn climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.5°C-11.2°C | -11.2°C | 14 | 3.1 | 9.710 h |
| February | 2.5°C-7.3°C | -7.3°C | 24 | 4.3 | 10.711 h |
| March | 8.7°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 32 | 5.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.8°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 63 | 7.6 | 13.213 h |
| May | 21.5°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 108 | 9.1 | 14.314 h |
| June | 25.8°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 131 | 11.7 | 14.915 h |
| July | 27.5°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 330 | 18.1 | 14.715 h |
| August, selected | 27.8°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 270 | 15.7 | 13.714 h |
| September | 23.9°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 110 | 7.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 17.1°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 57 | 7.3 | 11.211 h |
| November | 8.3°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 60 | 8.0 | 10.110 h |
| December | 0.5°C-7.8°C | -7.8°C | 29 | 5.9 | 9.49 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
- P’yŏngsŏng in AugustNorth Korea · 21 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.8°C · 244 mm rain
- Paek'ak in AugustNorth Korea · 28 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 21.2°C · 227 mm rain
- Kaech’ŏn in AugustNorth Korea · 30 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.6°C · 285 mm rain
- Tŏkch’ŏn in AugustNorth Korea · 45 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.3°C · 311 mm rain
- Pyongyang in AugustNorth Korea · 47 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.9°C · 219 mm rain
- Man’gyŏngdae-ri in AugustNorth Korea · 54 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.2°C · 219 mm rain
- Kangsŏn in AugustNorth Korea · 63 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 216 mm rain
- Songnim-ni in AugustNorth Korea · 78 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.3°C · 210 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 Sunch’ŏn) is explained once on the Sunch’ŏn year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.