Climate averages 1991–2020
Aqsu weather
in May.
A warm, very dry month: the 4th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Aqsu: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 11.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 14 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a very dry month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 28 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wensu (11 km away). In May its highs average 24.4°C, 1.2°C cooler than Aqsu, with 14 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Aqsu ranks joint 483rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 12th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Aqsu is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 14 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Aqsu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1.9°C-10.8°C | -10.8°C | 1.5 | 0.5 | 9.610 h |
| February | 3.9°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 6.3 | 1.7 | 10.611 h |
| March | 12.5°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 8.2 | 2.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.8°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 10 | 2.3 | 13.313 h |
| May, selected | 25.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 14 | 3.5 | 14.514 h |
| June | 29.2°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 14 | 3.6 | 15.115 h |
| July | 30.5°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 14 | 4.2 | 14.815 h |
| August | 29.1°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 21 | 5.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 24.5°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 22 | 4.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.2°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 12 | 2.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 7.5°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 6.4 | 1.6 | 9.910 h |
| December | -0.4°C-8.0°C | -8.0°C | 3.0 | 0.7 | 9.39 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
May in nearby cities
- Wensu in MayChina · 11 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 11.4°C · 14 mm rain
- Ālā'ĕr in MayChina · 109 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 15.3°C · 6.6 mm rain
- Tumxuk in MayChina · 179 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 9.2 mm rain
- Karakol in MayKyrgyzstan · 213 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 101 mm rain
- Xincheng in MayChina · 229 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 13.5°C · 12 mm rain
- Ghulja in MayChina · 315 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 10.2°C · 40 mm rain
- Huocheng in MayChina · 323 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 10.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Qarasu in MayChina · 336 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 9.7°C · 50 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 Aqsu) is explained once on the Aqsu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Wensu lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.