Climate averages 1991–2020
Enshi weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Enshi: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 17.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 196 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 40 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yezhou (41 km away). In May its highs average 24.5°C, about as warm as Enshi, with 160 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Enshi ranks joint 628th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 711th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Enshi is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 196 mm to 228 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
Enshi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 74 | 13.2 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.6°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 84 | 13.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.0°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 121 | 16.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.5°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 162 | 16.3 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.3°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 196 | 16.7 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.3°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 228 | 16.4 | 14.114 h |
| July | 29.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 229 | 18.9 | 13.914 h |
| August | 29.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 159 | 15.6 | 13.213 h |
| September | 25.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 147 | 13.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 134 | 14.1 | 11.511 h |
| November | 15.4°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 102 | 13.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.2°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 66 | 12.1 | 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
- Yezhou in MayChina · 41 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 17.2°C · 160 mm rain
- Lichuan in MayChina · 61 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 13.6°C · 226 mm rain
- Yong’an in MayChina · 80 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.2°C · 153 mm rain
- Wushan in MayChina · 94 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.3°C · 190 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Chongqing), China in MayChina · 109 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.0°C · 204 mm rain
- Wanzhou in MayChina · 116 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 19.1°C · 169 mm rain
- Chengxiang in MayChina · 122 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.9°C · 151 mm rain
- Nanbin in MayChina · 136 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.9°C · 203 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 Enshi) is explained once on the Enshi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.