Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinhua 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 Jinhua: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 17.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 209 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 35 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanxi (Zhejiang), China (21 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Jinhua, with 180 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinhua ranks joint 278th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 740th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Jinhua is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 209 mm to 346 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
Jinhua climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.3°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 73 | 10.0 | 10.511 h |
| February | 12.7°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 78 | 11.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 145 | 15.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.4°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 172 | 15.0 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 26.7°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 209 | 15.8 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.0°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 346 | 19.3 | 14.014 h |
| July | 33.3°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 172 | 14.8 | 13.814 h |
| August | 33.2°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 165 | 15.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 29.1°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 110 | 11.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.3°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 62 | 7.1 | 11.511 h |
| November | 18.7°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 82 | 9.1 | 10.711 h |
| December | 12.6°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 62 | 7.9 | 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
- Lanxi (Zhejiang), China in MayChina · 21 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 180 mm rain
- Guli in MayChina · 45 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Puyang in MayChina · 46 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.1°C · 184 mm rain
- Yiwu in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.4°C · 173 mm rain
- Dongyang in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.2°C · 162 mm rain
- Lishui in MayChina · 76 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.0°C · 185 mm rain
- Quzhou in MayChina · 77 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.9°C · 221 mm rain
- Zhuji in MayChina · 89 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 165 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 Jinhua) is explained once on the Jinhua year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.