Climate averages 1991–2020
Duyun 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 Duyun: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 253 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 25 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dushan (48 km away). In May its highs average 23.3°C, 0.6°C cooler than Duyun, with 241 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Duyun ranks joint 651st of 884 for the warmest May highs and 806th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Duyun is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 253 mm to 288 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
Duyun climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 86 | 15.6 | 10.711 h |
| February | 11.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 86 | 14.9 | 11.311 h |
| March | 15.6°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 149 | 20.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 183 | 21.8 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 23.9°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 253 | 21.7 | 13.413 h |
| June | 26.1°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 288 | 23.2 | 13.814 h |
| July | 27.6°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 223 | 22.6 | 13.614 h |
| August | 27.8°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 156 | 19.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 25.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 117 | 13.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.4°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 112 | 13.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 16.0°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 78 | 12.3 | 10.911 h |
| December | 10.7°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 56 | 11.0 | 10.511 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
- Dushan in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 16.4°C · 241 mm rain
- Kaili in MayChina · 58 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 208 mm rain
- Guiyang in MayChina · 87 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 191 mm rain
- Anshun in MayChina · 158 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 14.5°C · 192 mm rain
- Liping in MayChina · 161 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 17.9°C · 289 mm rain
- Zunyi in MayChina · 169 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 225 mm rain
- Hechi in MayChina · 184 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.8°C · 393 mm rain
- Liuzhi in MayChina · 209 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 Duyun) is explained once on the Duyun year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.