Climate averages 1991–2020
Changde weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Changde: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 18.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 181 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 35 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinshi (66 km away). In May its highs average 26.4°C, about as warm as Changde, with 185 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Changde ranks joint 338th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 669th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Changde is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 181 mm to 236 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Changde climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C2.0°C | 2.0°C | 67 | 9.9 | 10.511 h |
| February | 11.8°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 79 | 11.0 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.3°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 132 | 14.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.1°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 150 | 14.5 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 26.5°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 181 | 14.5 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 236 | 15.8 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.1°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 226 | 15.2 | 13.814 h |
| August | 31.6°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 140 | 14.4 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.9°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 86 | 9.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.8°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 76 | 8.7 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.1°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 71 | 8.7 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.5°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 40 | 7.0 | 10.310 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
May in nearby cities
- Jinshi in MayChina · 66 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.2°C · 185 mm rain
- Heshan in MayChina · 82 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 18.4°C · 225 mm rain
- Xiulin in MayChina · 102 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.5°C · 197 mm rain
- Zhangjiajie in MayChina · 119 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.4°C · 247 mm rain
- Yueyang in MayChina · 141 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.9°C · 243 mm rain
- Zhicheng in MayChina · 142 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.9°C · 171 mm rain
- Loudi in MayChina · 147 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 231 mm rain
- Shaoshan in MayChina · 148 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 18.3°C · 227 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 Changde) is explained once on the Changde year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.