Climate averages 1991–2020
Dushan weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Dushan: daytime highs average 23.3°C and nights cool to about 16.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 241 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 24 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Duyun (48 km away). In May its highs average 23.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than Dushan, with 253 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Dushan ranks joint 688th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 792nd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Dushan is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 25.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 241 mm to 287 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
Dushan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.0°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 66 | 14.2 | 10.711 h |
| February | 11.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 67 | 13.8 | 11.311 h |
| March | 15.5°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 123 | 19.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.3°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 169 | 20.1 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 23.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 241 | 21.2 | 13.413 h |
| June | 25.2°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 287 | 23.4 | 13.714 h |
| July | 26.4°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 228 | 23.6 | 13.614 h |
| August | 26.6°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 158 | 19.9 | 13.013 h |
| September | 24.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 112 | 14.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 97 | 12.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 15.8°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 68 | 11.0 | 10.911 h |
| December | 10.8°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 50 | 9.7 | 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
- Duyun in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.9°C · 253 mm rain
- Kaili in MayChina · 95 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 208 mm rain
- Guiyang in MayChina · 117 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 191 mm rain
- Hechi in MayChina · 138 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.8°C · 393 mm rain
- Liping in MayChina · 166 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 17.9°C · 289 mm rain
- Anshun in MayChina · 166 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.5°C · 192 mm rain
- Yizhou in MayChina · 187 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 21.3°C · 340 mm rain
- Liuzhi in MayChina · 215 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.9°C · 190 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 Dushan) is explained once on the Dushan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.