Climate averages 1991–2020
Chuzhou weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Chuzhou: daytime highs average 25.8°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 48 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nanjing (54 km away). In May its highs average 25.7°C, about as warm as Chuzhou, with 121 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Chuzhou ranks joint 472nd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 514th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Chuzhou is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 116 mm to 194 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
Chuzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.5°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 47 | 7.1 | 10.310 h |
| February | 10.3°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 50 | 7.9 | 11.011 h |
| March | 15.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 71 | 9.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.1°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 83 | 8.5 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 25.8°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 116 | 9.5 | 13.814 h |
| June | 28.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 194 | 11.5 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.3°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 224 | 15.2 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.7°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 174 | 14.5 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.0°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 84 | 8.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.2°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 53 | 6.4 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.1°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 51 | 6.7 | 10.511 h |
| December | 9.7°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 31 | 5.1 | 10.110 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
- Nanjing in MayChina · 54 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 16.3°C · 121 mm rain
- Mingguang in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Ma’anshan in MayChina · 74 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 16.9°C · 129 mm rain
- Zhenzhou in MayChina · 82 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 16.3°C · 115 mm rain
- Chaohu in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.6°C · 135 mm rain
- Yangzhou in MayChina · 107 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 16.1°C · 109 mm rain
- Hefei in MayChina · 108 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Wuhu in MayChina · 109 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 17.3°C · 148 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 Chuzhou) is explained once on the Chuzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.