Climate averages 1991–2020
Sangju 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 Sangju: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 212 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 33 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mungyeong (20 km away). In August its highs average 29.1°C, about as warm as Sangju, with 212 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in South Korea, Sangju ranks joint 8th of 79 for the warmest August highs and joint 21st of 79 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 79 cities is 28.6°C; Sangju is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 4.4°C to 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 212 mm to 147 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
Sangju climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 21 | 3.9 | 10.010 h |
| February | 6.3°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 30 | 3.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 11.9°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 53 | 6.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.4°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 80 | 7.4 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 93 | 7.8 | 14.114 h |
| June | 27.6°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 121 | 8.4 | 14.615 h |
| July | 29.0°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 238 | 14.9 | 14.414 h |
| August, selected | 29.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 212 | 14.5 | 13.514 h |
| September | 25.0°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 147 | 9.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.6°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 55 | 4.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.2°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 37 | 5.3 | 10.310 h |
| December | 5.2°C-2.6°C | -2.6°C | 22 | 4.1 | 9.710 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
- Mungyeong in AugustSouth Korea · 20 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 22.0°C · 212 mm rain
- Gimcheon in AugustSouth Korea · 33 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.3°C · 236 mm rain
- Gumi in AugustSouth Korea · 37 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 22.5°C · 215 mm rain
- Andong in AugustSouth Korea · 53 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.8°C · 184 mm rain
- Yeongju in AugustSouth Korea · 62 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.2°C · 183 mm rain
- Cheongju-si in AugustSouth Korea · 65 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.3°C · 227 mm rain
- Chungju in AugustSouth Korea · 66 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 21.7°C · 226 mm rain
- Daejeon in AugustSouth Korea · 70 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 197 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 Sangju) is explained once on the Sangju year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mungyeong lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.