Climate averages 1991–2020
Jingdezhen weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Jingdezhen: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 18.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 315 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 36 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Poyang (62 km away). In May its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Jingdezhen, with 277 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jingdezhen ranks joint 244th of 884 for the warmest May highs and 872nd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Jingdezhen is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 315 mm to 467 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
Jingdezhen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.6°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 83 | 10.5 | 10.510 h |
| February | 13.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 116 | 11.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.0°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 209 | 16.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.6°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 283 | 16.1 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 26.9°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 315 | 15.8 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.1°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 467 | 18.4 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.6°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 273 | 14.2 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.7°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 173 | 14.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 29.6°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 84 | 9.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.9°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 58 | 6.0 | 11.511 h |
| November | 18.9°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 86 | 8.1 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.8°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 60 | 7.3 | 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
- Poyang in MayChina · 62 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.7°C · 277 mm rain
- Pengze in MayChina · 93 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.6°C · 228 mm rain
- Huayuan in MayChina · 112 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 19.1°C · 275 mm rain
- Huangshan in MayChina · 117 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.4°C · 231 mm rain
- Shangrao in MayChina · 118 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 18.8°C · 244 mm rain
- Yingtan in MayChina · 120 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.2°C · 281 mm rain
- Jiujiang in MayChina · 125 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.0°C · 237 mm rain
- Jinfeng in MayChina · 132 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 19.5°C · 290 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 Jingdezhen) is explained once on the Jingdezhen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.