Climate averages 1991–2020
Kaohsiung weather
in July.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a hot month in Kaohsiung: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 24.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 275 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes July a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tainan (43 km away). In July its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Kaohsiung, with 305 mm of rain.
Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Kaohsiung ranks joint 17th of 28 for the warmest July highs and 18th of 28 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 28 cities is 30.1°C; Kaohsiung is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 275 mm to 363 mm.
The annual picture
July 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
Kaohsiung climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 35 | 5.9 | 10.911 h |
| February | 23.5°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 26 | 6.1 | 11.411 h |
| March | 26.0°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 36 | 7.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 28.3°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 82 | 10.0 | 12.713 h |
| May | 29.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 232 | 17.3 | 13.213 h |
| June | 29.5°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 338 | 20.5 | 13.513 h |
| July, selected | 30.0°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 275 | 19.7 | 13.413 h |
| August | 29.4°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 363 | 21.2 | 12.913 h |
| September | 29.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 189 | 16.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.9°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 80 | 11.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 26.1°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 58 | 8.1 | 11.111 h |
| December | 23.2°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 40 | 5.6 | 10.811 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
July in nearby cities
- Tainan in JulyTaiwan · 43 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 25.7°C · 305 mm rain
- Yongkang in JulyTaiwan · 46 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.8°C · 305 mm rain
- Xinying in JulyTaiwan · 77 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.6°C · 306 mm rain
- Taitung in JulyTaiwan · 87 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 25.9°C · 233 mm rain
- Chiayi City in JulyTaiwan · 97 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.4°C · 555 mm rain
- Douliu in JulyTaiwan · 124 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 23.3°C · 359 mm rain
- Nantou, Taiwan in JulyTaiwan · 149 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.7°C · 309 mm rain
- Yuanlin in JulyTaiwan · 151 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.9°C · 230 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 Kaohsiung) is explained once on the Kaohsiung year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.