Climate averages 1991–2020
Cixi 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 Cixi: daytime highs average 24.9°C and nights cool to about 17.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 144 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yuyao (17 km away). In May its highs average 25.2°C, about as warm as Cixi, with 161 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Cixi ranks joint 578th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 583rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Cixi is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 27.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 144 mm to 266 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
Cixi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.9°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 78 | 10.1 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 72 | 9.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.7°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 115 | 13.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 117 | 11.8 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.9°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 144 | 11.7 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.7°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 266 | 16.2 | 14.114 h |
| July | 32.5°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 145 | 11.9 | 13.914 h |
| August | 32.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 152 | 14.5 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.6°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 122 | 11.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.9°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 71 | 6.8 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.7°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 65 | 8.4 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.4°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 62 | 7.3 | 10.210 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
- Yuyao in MayChina · 17 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 161 mm rain
- Shangyu in MayChina · 40 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Ningbo in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.7°C · 162 mm rain
- Fenghua in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.8°C · 163 mm rain
- Haining in MayChina · 67 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 17.6°C · 162 mm rain
- Shaoxing in MayChina · 67 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 17.0°C · 171 mm rain
- Jinshan in MayChina · 73 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 17.2°C · 140 mm rain
- Fengxiang in MayChina · 79 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 17.1°C · 142 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 Cixi) is explained once on the Cixi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.