Climate averages 1991–2020
Jinniu weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Jinniu: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 79 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiangcheng (37 km away). In May its highs average 24.8°C, 4.2°C cooler than Jinniu, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jinniu ranks joint 54th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 404th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Jinniu is 3.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 79 mm to 140 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
Jinniu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.8°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 14 | 2.4 | 10.711 h |
| February | 21.4°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 12 | 2.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 25.0°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 15 | 2.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 27.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 25 | 3.8 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 29.0°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 79 | 8.3 | 13.413 h |
| June | 28.5°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 140 | 14.7 | 13.714 h |
| July | 26.8°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 199 | 22.1 | 13.614 h |
| August | 26.7°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 199 | 22.6 | 13.013 h |
| September | 25.5°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 142 | 18.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 68 | 10.3 | 11.612 h |
| November | 21.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 18.7°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 8.5 | 2.1 | 10.611 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
- Xiangcheng in MayChina · 37 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.4°C · 84 mm rain
- Yunnanyi in MayChina · 43 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 13.6°C · 69 mm rain
- Dali Old Town in MayChina · 43 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Dali in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Micheng in MayChina · 52 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 15.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Lijiang in MayChina · 124 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 10.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Chuxiong in MayChina · 129 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 89 mm rain
- Baoshan (Yunnan), China in MayChina · 161 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.0°C · 115 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 Jinniu) is explained once on the Jinniu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.