Climate averages 1991–2020

Jizhou weather
in May.

A hot, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 28.0°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 15.9°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 40 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Jizhou · average highYear overview

May is a hot month in Jizhou: daytime highs average 28.0°C and nights cool to about 15.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 40 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 10 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hengshui (23 km away). In May its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Jizhou, with 40 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Jizhou ranks joint 124th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 83rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Jizhou is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 32.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 40 mm to 66 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-505101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Jizhou climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Jizhou, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 4.2°C-5.4°C-5.4°C3.10.99.910 h
February 8.2°C-2.7°C-2.7°C6.61.510.811 h
March 15.2°C2.9°C2.9°C9.12.111.912 h
April 22.5°C9.9°C9.9°C284.213.113 h
May, selected 28.0°C15.9°C15.9°C405.214.214 h
June 32.1°C21.2°C21.2°C666.514.715 h
July 32.0°C23.5°C23.5°C15312.214.514 h
August 30.1°C22.1°C22.1°C13810.613.614 h
September 26.6°C17.2°C17.2°C525.912.512 h
October 21.0°C10.7°C10.7°C284.111.311 h
November 12.6°C2.4°C2.4°C152.810.210 h
December 5.6°C-3.9°C-3.9°C4.01.39.610 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

Distance from Jizhou

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Jizhou) is explained once on the Jizhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.