Climate averages 1991–2020
Ghulja weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Ghulja: daytime highs average 23.7°C and nights cool to about 10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huocheng (39 km away). In May its highs average 23.8°C, about as warm as Ghulja, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ghulja ranks joint 664th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 83rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Ghulja is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 40 mm to 31 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Ghulja climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.1°C-9.7°C | -9.7°C | 14 | 4.2 | 9.39 h |
| February | 4.4°C-7.2°C | -7.2°C | 17 | 4.6 | 10.410 h |
| March | 11.4°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 20 | 5.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.6°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 36 | 7.2 | 13.413 h |
| May, selected | 23.7°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 40 | 6.9 | 14.715 h |
| June | 27.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 31 | 6.0 | 15.415 h |
| July | 29.9°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 31 | 4.7 | 15.115 h |
| August | 28.9°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 22 | 3.6 | 14.014 h |
| September | 24.1°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 15 | 3.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.7°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 20 | 4.3 | 11.011 h |
| November | 8.9°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 25 | 5.4 | 9.710 h |
| December | 3.0°C-7.0°C | -7.0°C | 19 | 5.2 | 9.09 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Huocheng in MayChina · 39 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 10.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Qarasu in MayChina · 79 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 9.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Bole in MayChina · 124 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 10.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Xinyuan in MayChina · 164 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 6.2°C · 80 mm rain
- Sarqant in MayKazakhstan · 200 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 7.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Taldykorgan in MayKazakhstan · 264 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 8.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Wusu in MayChina · 274 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 12.2°C · 55 mm rain
- Xincheng in MayChina · 278 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 13.5°C · 12 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 Ghulja) is explained once on the Ghulja year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.