Climate averages 1991–2020
Chuxiong weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Chuxiong: daytime highs average 26.3°C and nights cool to about 15.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 21 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Longquan (74 km away). In May its highs average 27.3°C, 1.0°C warmer than Chuxiong, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chuxiong ranks joint 380th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 438th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Chuxiong is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 89 mm to 166 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
Chuxiong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 26 | 3.7 | 10.811 h |
| February | 19.4°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 16 | 3.3 | 11.311 h |
| March | 23.1°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 23 | 4.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 39 | 6.1 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 26.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 10.6 | 13.313 h |
| June | 25.6°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 166 | 18.3 | 13.714 h |
| July | 24.4°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 218 | 24.3 | 13.514 h |
| August | 24.3°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 187 | 23.5 | 13.013 h |
| September | 23.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 126 | 18.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.9°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 82 | 13.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 18.5°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 31 | 4.8 | 10.911 h |
| December | 16.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 16 | 3.4 | 10.611 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
- Longquan in MayChina · 74 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 89 mm rain
- Jianshui in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 14.3°C · 176 mm rain
- Anning in MayChina · 96 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in MayChina · 96 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.6°C · 69 mm rain
- Haikou, China in MayChina · 108 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Xiangcheng in MayChina · 110 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Majie in MayChina · 110 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Micheng in MayChina · 112 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 15.4°C · 90 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 Chuxiong) is explained once on the Chuxiong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.