Climate averages 1991–2020
Jianshui weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: one of the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Jianshui: daytime highs average 24.0°C and nights cool to about 14.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 176 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 18 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chuxiong (90 km away). In May its highs average 26.3°C, 2.2°C warmer than Jianshui, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jianshui ranks joint 644th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 657th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Jianshui is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs stay level at 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 176 mm to 279 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
Jianshui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.1°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 65 | 7.3 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.6°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 49 | 6.2 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.2°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 61 | 7.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 99 | 10.8 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 24.0°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 176 | 16.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 279 | 25.6 | 13.614 h |
| July | 23.4°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 334 | 29.5 | 13.513 h |
| August | 23.6°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 287 | 27.7 | 13.013 h |
| September | 22.4°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 212 | 24.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 20.1°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 160 | 20.3 | 11.612 h |
| November | 17.3°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 72 | 9.8 | 11.011 h |
| December | 14.8°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 45 | 7.5 | 10.711 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
- Chuxiong in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 89 mm rain
- Longquan in MayChina · 105 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 89 mm rain
- Lincang in MayChina · 123 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 16.3°C · 137 mm rain
- Yuxi in MayChina · 134 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.6°C · 97 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in MayChina · 139 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.6°C · 69 mm rain
- Ning’er in MayChina · 139 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.2°C · 172 mm rain
- Micheng in MayChina · 140 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 15.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Anning in MayChina · 146 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 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 Jianshui) is explained once on the Jianshui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.