Climate averages 1991–2020
Ganzhou 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 Ganzhou: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 20.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 232 mm of rain on roughly 18 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 Xiongzhou (103 km away). In May its highs average 27.9°C, about as warm as Ganzhou, with 239 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ganzhou ranks joint 133rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 776th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Ganzhou is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 232 mm to 258 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
Ganzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.7°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 58 | 8.4 | 10.711 h |
| February | 15.3°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 71 | 10.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 18.8°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 149 | 15.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 173 | 15.9 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 27.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 232 | 17.7 | 13.413 h |
| June | 30.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 258 | 18.1 | 13.714 h |
| July | 33.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 123 | 13.5 | 13.614 h |
| August | 32.9°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 175 | 17.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.9°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 96 | 10.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.8°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 54 | 5.6 | 11.612 h |
| November | 20.3°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 55 | 6.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 14.5°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 51 | 6.4 | 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
- Xiongzhou in MayChina · 103 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 20.9°C · 239 mm rain
- Shixing in MayChina · 133 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.1°C · 272 mm rain
- Dunhou in MayChina · 134 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.1°C · 235 mm rain
- Ji’an in MayChina · 141 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.1°C · 235 mm rain
- Xujiang in MayChina · 177 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.5°C · 322 mm rain
- Lecheng in MayChina · 178 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.6°C · 246 mm rain
- Shaoguan in MayChina · 179 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 21.2°C · 306 mm rain
- Maba in MayChina · 186 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.4°C · 306 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 Ganzhou) is explained once on the Ganzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.