Climate averages 1991–2020
Dali weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: one of the 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 Dali: daytime highs average 24.4°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dali Old Town (13 km away). In May its highs average 23.7°C, 0.7°C cooler than Dali, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dali ranks joint 620th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 446th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Dali is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 24.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 174 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
Dali climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 25 | 4.5 | 10.711 h |
| February | 16.8°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 23 | 4.9 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.3°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 29 | 6.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 37 | 5.9 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 24.4°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 90 | 10.7 | 13.413 h |
| June | 24.4°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 174 | 21.7 | 13.714 h |
| July | 23.3°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 272 | 28.7 | 13.614 h |
| August | 23.4°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 275 | 26.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 22.3°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 184 | 24.5 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 97 | 15.7 | 11.612 h |
| November | 17.2°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 26 | 4.6 | 10.911 h |
| December | 14.8°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 13 | 2.9 | 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
- Dali Old Town in MayChina · 13 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Xiangcheng in MayChina · 38 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Micheng in MayChina · 39 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 15.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Jinniu in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 18.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.6°C · 69 mm rain
- Baoshan (Yunnan), China in MayChina · 118 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Lushui (approximate) in MayChina · 138 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 19.4°C · 233 mm rain
- Lijiang in MayChina · 143 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 10.9°C · 115 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 Dali) is explained once on the Dali year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.