Climate averages 1991–2020
Gumi weather
in August.
A hot, 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 hot month in Gumi: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 22.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 215 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes August a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 32 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gimcheon (19 km away). In August its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Gumi, with 236 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in South Korea, Gumi ranks joint 4th of 79 for the warmest August highs and joint 25th of 79 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 79 cities is 28.6°C; Gumi is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.5°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 215 mm to 153 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
Gumi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.0°C-3.8°C | -3.8°C | 23 | 3.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 6.8°C-2.5°C | -2.5°C | 29 | 4.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 12.3°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 55 | 6.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.7°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 78 | 7.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.9°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 88 | 7.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 27.7°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 132 | 9.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 29.3°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 224 | 14.8 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 29.6°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 215 | 14.5 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.2°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 153 | 9.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.8°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 58 | 4.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.6°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 37 | 4.8 | 10.310 h |
| December | 5.8°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 22 | 3.6 | 9.810 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
- Gimcheon in AugustSouth Korea · 19 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.3°C · 236 mm rain
- Daegu in AugustSouth Korea · 35 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.4°C · 196 mm rain
- Sangju in AugustSouth Korea · 37 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.3°C · 212 mm rain
- Gyeongsan-si in AugustSouth Korea · 48 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.5°C · 187 mm rain
- Mungyeong in AugustSouth Korea · 55 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 22.0°C · 212 mm rain
- Andong in AugustSouth Korea · 61 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.8°C · 184 mm rain
- Changnyeong in AugustSouth Korea · 65 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 22.1°C · 191 mm rain
- Yeongju in AugustSouth Korea · 83 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.2°C · 183 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 Gumi) is explained once on the Gumi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.