Climate averages 1991–2020
Artux weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 4th warmest and the 11th 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 Artux: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 12.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 16 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kashgar (32 km away). In May its highs average 27.2°C, 0.7°C warmer than Artux, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Artux ranks joint 338th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 18th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Artux is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 30.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 16 mm to 8.6 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
Artux climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.6°C-8.3°C | -8.3°C | 3.1 | 1.0 | 9.710 h |
| February | 4.6°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 7.9 | 1.9 | 10.711 h |
| March | 13.5°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 11 | 2.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.8°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 7.7 | 1.8 | 13.213 h |
| May, selected | 26.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 16 | 2.4 | 14.314 h |
| June | 30.9°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 8.6 | 1.9 | 14.915 h |
| July | 32.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 8.2 | 1.3 | 14.715 h |
| August | 30.9°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 14 | 2.2 | 13.714 h |
| September | 26.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 17 | 2.8 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 8.5 | 1.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 9.4°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 4.5 | 1.1 | 10.010 h |
| December | 1.1°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 3.9 | 1.1 | 9.49 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
- Kashgar in MayChina · 32 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 13.8°C · 22 mm rain
- Shache in MayChina · 170 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 13.9°C · 14 mm rain
- Tumxuk in MayChina · 247 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 9.2 mm rain
- Osh in MayKyrgyzstan · 302 kmHigh 21.7°C · Low 10.1°C · 85 mm rain
- Andijon in MayUzbekistan · 346 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 13.6°C · 46 mm rain
- Karakol in MayKyrgyzstan · 361 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 101 mm rain
- Quvasoy in MayUzbekistan · 364 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 12.1°C · 108 mm rain
- Shahrixon in MayUzbekistan · 367 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 14.5°C · 42 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 Artux) is explained once on the Artux year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.