Climate averages 1991–2020
Gulin weather
in May.
A warm, 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 Gulin: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 162 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xuyong (40 km away). In May its highs average 25.6°C, about as warm as Gulin, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Gulin ranks joint 539th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 615th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Gulin is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 162 mm to 205 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
Gulin climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.7°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 53 | 15.4 | 10.611 h |
| February | 12.7°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 50 | 14.2 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.1°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 88 | 19.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.1°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 117 | 19.9 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 25.3°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 162 | 20.6 | 13.514 h |
| June | 27.9°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 205 | 20.6 | 13.914 h |
| July | 31.0°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 179 | 18.6 | 13.714 h |
| August | 31.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 154 | 18.1 | 13.113 h |
| September | 27.0°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 124 | 15.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.8°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 139 | 20.2 | 11.512 h |
| November | 16.3°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 79 | 16.0 | 10.811 h |
| December | 11.1°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 53 | 13.8 | 10.410 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
- Xuyong in MayChina · 40 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.9°C · 163 mm rain
- Gusong in MayChina · 64 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 17.1°C · 152 mm rain
- Hejiang in MayChina · 86 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.5°C · 138 mm rain
- Bijie in MayChina · 97 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 13.2°C · 151 mm rain
- Loushanguan in MayChina · 100 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 15.7°C · 201 mm rain
- Luzhou in MayChina · 102 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.8°C · 120 mm rain
- Changning in MayChina · 105 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.9°C · 127 mm rain
- Zunyi in MayChina · 115 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 225 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 Gulin) is explained once on the Gulin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.