Magong climate by month
What the weather is like
Magong has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa): a dry winter and a wetter summer.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 28° and nights 27°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 18° and lows of 17°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 10°.
About 1,333 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. August is the wettest month (246 mm, 25 wet days) and January the driest (23 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 21% in October to 57% in June.
The sea reaches about 28° in July. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Taipei, the capital, Magong is 2.8° cooler on a July afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · July
- Coldest nights
- 17° · January
- Wettest month
- August
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- October · 21% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 28° · July
- Longest day
- 13 h 35 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 42 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 18° | 19° | 21° | 23° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 27° | 25° | 23° | 20° |
| Average low | 17° | 17° | 19° | 22° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 22° | 19° |
| Precipitation | 23 mm | 56 mm | 64 mm | 101 mm | 148 mm | 189 mm | 218 mm | 246 mm | 189 mm | 45 mm | 27 mm | 27 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 4.8 | 6.5 | 10.5 | 11.2 | 17.7 | 23.5 | 21.5 | 24.7 | 16.7 | 8.7 | 5.3 | 5.2 |
| Cloud cover | 33% | 36% | 35% | 35% | 45% | 57% | 48% | 46% | 37% | 21% | 24% | 29% |
| Sea temperature | 21° | 21° | 22° | 24° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° | 28° | 26° | 24° | 22° |
| Daylight | 10h 50 | 11h 22 | 11h 59 | 12h 41 | 13h 16 | 13h 35 | 13h 28 | 12h 58 | 12h 19 | 11h 38 | 11h 01 | 10h 42 |
| Month score | 87 | 82 | 73 | 72 | 58 | 46 | 46 | 47 | 54 | 78 | 88 | 88 |