Climate averages 1991–2020
Huangshan 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 Huangshan: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 17.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 231 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 38 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huicheng (Anhui), China (21 km away). In May its highs average 25.7°C, about as warm as Huangshan, with 214 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Huangshan ranks joint 457th 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; Huangshan is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 231 mm to 384 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
Huangshan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.6°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 82 | 11.4 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 100 | 11.7 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.6°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 174 | 15.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.5°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 210 | 15.0 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 25.9°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 231 | 14.9 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.1°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 384 | 18.4 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 244 | 15.5 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 163 | 16.4 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.0°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 88 | 10.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.0°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 62 | 6.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.1°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 76 | 8.5 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.9°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 60 | 8.1 | 10.310 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
- Huicheng (Anhui), China in MayChina · 21 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 17.0°C · 214 mm rain
- Quzhou in MayChina · 99 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.9°C · 221 mm rain
- Jingdezhen in MayChina · 117 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 18.4°C · 315 mm rain
- Lanxi (Zhejiang), China in MayChina · 125 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 180 mm rain
- Chizhou in MayChina · 133 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 17.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Xuancheng in MayChina · 144 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.8°C · 160 mm rain
- Shangrao in MayChina · 145 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 18.8°C · 244 mm rain
- Jinhua in MayChina · 145 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 209 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 Huangshan) is explained once on the Huangshan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.