Climate averages 1991–2020
Huangmei weather
in May.
A warm, very 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 Huangmei: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 18.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 231 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jiujiang (54 km away). In May its highs average 26.3°C, about as warm as Huangmei, with 237 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Huangmei ranks joint 423rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 773rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Huangmei is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 231 mm to 338 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
Huangmei climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 67 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.4°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 98 | 10.2 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 150 | 13.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 192 | 13.1 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 26.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 231 | 13.7 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.7°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 338 | 16.9 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.8°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 263 | 16.4 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.6°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 170 | 17.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.0°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 92 | 9.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.2°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 64 | 6.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.1°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 60 | 8.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.1°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 42 | 6.5 | 10.210 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
- Jiujiang in MayChina · 54 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.0°C · 237 mm rain
- Wuxue in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.5°C · 197 mm rain
- Pengze in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.6°C · 228 mm rain
- Qingquan in MayChina · 79 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.7°C · 187 mm rain
- Huangshi in MayChina · 94 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.8°C · 189 mm rain
- Daye in MayChina · 104 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 193 mm rain
- Anqing in MayChina · 104 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 201 mm rain
- E’zhou in MayChina · 112 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.6°C · 180 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 Huangmei) is explained once on the Huangmei year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.