Zhengzhou weather in August

In August, Zhengzhou sees average daytime highs of 30°C and overnight lows near 23°C, with 146 mm of rain across 13.8 wet days and about 13.3 hours of daylight. It is the 3rd-warmest and 2nd-wettest month of the year here.

Highs ease over the month, from about 31°C in the first days to 29°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 33% of the time in August, and the air most often feels oppressive.

Daylight stretches from about 13 h 48 min at the start of August to 12 h 48 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, August is Zhengzhou's 9th-clearest and 12th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Zhengzhou's year-round climate.

Daytime high
30°
3rd warmest
Overnight low
23°
11th coldest
Rainfall
146 mm
13.8 wet days
Daylight
13 h 18 min
5:50 AM – 7:09 PM
Cloud cover
60%
9th clearest
Wind
8 km/h
12th windiest
Solar energy
4.71 kWh/m²
Travel score
4.5
out of 10

Zhengzhou is capital of Henan province, China.

Air quality
Severe
PM2.5 68.6 µg/m³ · 2018
Density
562/km²
people per km²
Founded
~1550 BCE

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Temperature in August

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs ease over the month, from about 31°C in the first days to 29°C by the end.

A typical August day in Zhengzhou reaches about 30°C in the afternoon and slips back to 23°C overnight — a 8°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 26°C and 34°C. Set against its neighbours, August runs about 2°C cooler than July and about 4°C warmer than September.

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Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
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How August really feels in Zhengzhou

Once humidity and wind are folded in, August averages 21 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
21
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in August is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Zhengzhou weather by month

How August compares with the rest of the year at a glance. August is the 3rd-warmest and 2nd-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -3°102.31.99.90.3
Feb / -0°152.81.510.72.3
Mar15° / 254.50.711.75.3
Apr22° / 11°364.80.112.87.3
May27° / 17°586.3013.86.6
Jun32° / 22°867.3014.34.4
Jul32° / 24°18214.3014.13.7
Aug30° / 23°14613.8013.34.5
Sep26° / 18°838.6012.26.7
Oct21° / 12°424.9011.17.4
Nov14° / 304.60.810.24.6
Dec / -1°102.31.39.71.5

Cloud cover in August

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 33% of the time in August.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 14% of August, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 54%. Skies tend to open up as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
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24357
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84456
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114654
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Chance of precipitation in August

Any precipitation

Zhengzhou gets around 146 mm of rain over 13.8 wet days in August. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 44% and peaks near 52% on the wettest days. The odds ease toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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Humidity in August

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of August feels oppressive — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, August lands in the oppressive band about 37% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 87% of them.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
1002123749
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3003123848
4003123947
5003123945
6003124044
7004134142
8004144140
9004154238
10005174236
11006184233
12016204231
13017224228
14018244226
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16019284121
17019304019
180110324016
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23131339368
24141440347
25151541336
26251641315
27261741305
28371841284
29381940264
303102039243
314112138233

Wind in August

Winds average 8 km/h in August, the calmest month.

Across August, daily wind ranges from about 8 km/h on the calmest days to 9 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in August

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 13 h 48 min at the start of August to 12 h 48 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 60 minutes over August. Sunrise moves from 5:39 AM to 6:01 AM, and sunset from 7:24 PM to 6:49 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
113.85:397:24
213.75:397:23
313.75:407:23
413.75:417:22
513.75:427:21
613.65:427:20
713.65:437:19
813.65:447:18
913.55:457:17
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1113.55:467:15
1213.45:477:13
1313.45:487:12
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1613.35:507:09
1713.35:517:08
1813.25:527:07
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2013.25:537:04
2113.15:547:03
2213.15:557:02
2313.15:557:00
2413.05:566:59
2513.05:576:58
2613.05:586:56
2712.95:586:55
2812.95:596:54
2912.96:006:52
3012.86:016:51
3112.86:016:49

Solar energy in August

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in August, about 4.71 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 2.58 kWh/m² to a high of 6.03 kWh/m² in June across the year — August's 4.71 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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254.6Bright
264.6Bright
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294.6Bright
304.5Bright
314.5Bright
Planning a trip in August

Hazard calendar for Zhengzhou

In seasonPeak

In August, Zhengzhou sits inside its rainy season season. The full year is below, with each hazard's peak months called out.

Zhengzhou's rainy season runs June–September, when most of the year's rain falls.

Zhengzhou sees seasonal dust haze (April–May), heaviest in May.

Rainy season
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Is August a good time to visit Zhengzhou?

Our two travel scores rate August for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

4.5
Sightseeing
7th-best month of the year
6.3
Beach & pool
4th-best month of the year

August is a reasonable time to visit Zhengzhou for sightseeing. The water and warmth also suit a beach or pool day.

What to pack for Zhengzhou in August

From August's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In August, Zhengzhou sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 14 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Zhengzhou in August

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in August peaks around 7 — enough to warrant sun protection. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Zhengzhou peaks around May 20 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 10 at about 2 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 9 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateMay 20UV 9Jan 10UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Moderate
Feb3Moderate
Mar6High
Apr5High
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep7High
Oct4Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Moderate

Air quality in Zhengzhou in August

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where August falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Zhengzhou is worst in January — around 105 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.7× the cleanest month (July, 40 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Zhengzhou's WHO annual average of 68.6 µg/m³.

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyJan 15103 µg/m³Jul 1840 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan105Unhealthy
Feb87Unhealthy
Mar76Unhealthy
Apr64Unhealthy
May53Poor
Jun47Poor
Jul40Poor
Aug45Poor
Sep59Unhealthy
Oct74Unhealthy
Nov81Unhealthy
Dec93Unhealthy
Location & terrain

Where is Zhengzhou?

Zhengzhou sits at 34.8°N, 113.6°E, 104 m above sea level, in China. The nearest listed city is Songyang, 66 km away.

JinanXi'anWuhanNanjingTianjinDatong

Topography around Zhengzhou

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Zhengzhou.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Zhengzhou has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 37 m around an average of 105 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 205 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,415 m.

The land around Zhengzhou is covered by artificial surfaces (87%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (54%) within 16 km, and cropland (62%) within 80 km.

3 km
37 m
16 km
205 m
80 km
1,415 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
August weather nearby: Songyang 66 km · Luoyang 111 km · Jinan 369 km · Xi'an 436 km · Wuhan 468 km · Nanjing 562 km · Tianjin 580 km · Datong 594 km

China travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type A / I
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 47% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$13,862
2025
Happiness
6.1 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
0.5
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
17.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 464
Religion
unaffiliated 52%folk religion 22%Buddhist 18%Christian 5%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Zhengzhou (34.7578°, 113.6486°, elevation 104 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).