Climate averages 1991–2020
Chenggu weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Chenggu: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 14.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 109 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 51 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hanzhong (29 km away). In May its highs average 23.5°C, about as warm as Chenggu, with 105 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chenggu ranks joint 670th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 494th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Chenggu is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 26.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 109 mm to 137 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
Chenggu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.2°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 22 | 5.9 | 10.210 h |
| February | 9.8°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 34 | 7.5 | 11.011 h |
| March | 14.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 53 | 9.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 69 | 11.0 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 23.6°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 109 | 12.4 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.9°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 137 | 11.6 | 14.314 h |
| July | 28.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 224 | 18.1 | 14.114 h |
| August | 27.8°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 169 | 16.2 | 13.413 h |
| September | 23.0°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 198 | 15.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 18.2°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 121 | 14.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 13.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 68 | 10.1 | 10.510 h |
| December | 8.4°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 27 | 6.2 | 10.010 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
- Hanzhong in MayChina · 29 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 14.1°C · 105 mm rain
- Xixiang in MayChina · 45 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 15.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Mianyang, China in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 15.1°C · 112 mm rain
- Guozhen in MayChina · 135 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 13.0°C · 106 mm rain
- Baoji in MayChina · 136 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 13.0°C · 106 mm rain
- Donghe in MayChina · 140 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.4°C · 129 mm rain
- Bazhong in MayChina · 152 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 16.6°C · 146 mm rain
- Guangyuan in MayChina · 161 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.9°C · 96 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 Chenggu) is explained once on the Chenggu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.