Climate averages 1991–2020
Guangshui 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 Guangshui: daytime highs average 26.2°C and nights cool to about 16.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 144 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 45 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Anlu (50 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Guangshui, with 151 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Guangshui ranks joint 404th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 583rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Guangshui is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 144 mm to 218 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
Guangshui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 35 | 5.9 | 10.310 h |
| February | 11.3°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 48 | 6.9 | 11.011 h |
| March | 16.0°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 72 | 9.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.9°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 115 | 9.7 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 26.2°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 144 | 10.8 | 13.714 h |
| June | 29.2°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 218 | 12.1 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.1°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 243 | 15.1 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.8°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 146 | 13.6 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.4°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 81 | 8.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.5°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 67 | 7.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.2°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 48 | 6.5 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.2°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 24 | 4.9 | 10.110 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
- Anlu in MayChina · 50 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.1°C · 151 mm rain
- Xihe in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.8°C · 126 mm rain
- Xinyang in MayChina · 56 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 16.5°C · 120 mm rain
- Suizhou in MayChina · 61 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.7°C · 126 mm rain
- Xiaogan in MayChina · 77 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.5°C · 172 mm rain
- Chengzhong in MayChina · 86 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.4°C · 167 mm rain
- Xinshi in MayChina · 103 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.5°C · 174 mm rain
- Macheng in MayChina · 109 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 16.9°C · 158 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 Guangshui) is explained once on the Guangshui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.