Climate averages 1991–2020
Fenghua 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 Fenghua: daytime highs average 24.9°C and nights cool to about 16.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 163 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 37 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ningbo (28 km away). In May its highs average 24.7°C, about as warm as Fenghua, with 162 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Fenghua ranks joint 578th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 619th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Fenghua is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 163 mm to 298 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
Fenghua climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 76 | 10.1 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.2°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 70 | 10.5 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.0°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 116 | 13.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.5°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 127 | 13.0 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.9°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 163 | 13.3 | 13.614 h |
| June | 27.8°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 298 | 18.0 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.2°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 175 | 15.5 | 13.814 h |
| August | 31.5°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 196 | 17.7 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.3°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 160 | 14.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 88 | 7.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.7°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 74 | 9.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.7°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 69 | 8.3 | 10.310 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
- Ningbo in MayChina · 28 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.7°C · 162 mm rain
- Yuyao in MayChina · 50 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 161 mm rain
- Cixi in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 17.1°C · 144 mm rain
- Shangyu in MayChina · 65 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Zhoushan in MayChina · 85 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 150 mm rain
- Shaoxing in MayChina · 89 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 17.0°C · 171 mm rain
- Shenjiamen in MayChina · 92 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 17.6°C · 150 mm rain
- Taizhou (Zhejiang), China in MayChina · 111 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.8°C · 168 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 Fenghua) is explained once on the Fenghua year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.