Climate averages 1991–2020
Dazhou 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 Dazhou: daytime highs average 25.6°C and nights cool to about 17.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 167 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Liangping (68 km away). In May its highs average 25.0°C, 0.6°C cooler than Dazhou, with 213 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dazhou ranks joint 503rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 633rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Dazhou is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 167 mm to 187 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
Dazhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.3°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 40 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.6°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 46 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.9°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 83 | 11.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 122 | 13.1 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 25.6°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 167 | 14.1 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 187 | 13.7 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.3°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 218 | 16.4 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.6°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 158 | 13.6 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 177 | 13.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 137 | 14.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 85 | 10.8 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 46 | 9.5 | 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
- Liangping in MayChina · 68 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 213 mm rain
- Linjiang in MayChina · 73 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 19.4°C · 194 mm rain
- Hanfeng in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.9°C · 157 mm rain
- Guixi in MayChina · 98 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 17.9°C · 195 mm rain
- Bazhong in MayChina · 100 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 16.6°C · 146 mm rain
- Wanzhou in MayChina · 102 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 19.1°C · 169 mm rain
- Guang’an in MayChina · 114 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 171 mm rain
- Nanchong in MayChina · 139 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.7°C · 135 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 Dazhou) is explained once on the Dazhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.