Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunming weather
in May.
A warm, 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 warm month in Kunming: daytime highs average 24.6°C and nights cool to about 15.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 139 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 21 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Majie (8 km away). In May its highs average 24.8°C, about as warm as Kunming, with 139 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Kunming ranks joint 607th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 566th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Kunming is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 139 mm to 278 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
Kunming climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.7°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 35 | 5.4 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 30 | 5.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.5°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 41 | 6.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 69 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 24.6°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 139 | 15.0 | 13.313 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 278 | 23.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 23.5°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 274 | 26.6 | 13.514 h |
| August | 23.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 238 | 24.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 22.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 165 | 20.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 19.5°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 113 | 16.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 16.9°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 34 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| December | 14.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 24 | 4.5 | 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
- Majie in MayChina · 8 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Anning in MayChina · 27 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Haikou, China in MayChina · 32 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Longquan in MayChina · 69 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 89 mm rain
- Yuxi in MayChina · 78 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.6°C · 97 mm rain
- Miyang in MayChina · 102 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 17.4°C · 86 mm rain
- Qujing in MayChina · 118 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.0°C · 128 mm rain
- Chuxiong in MayChina · 118 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 89 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 Kunming) is explained once on the Kunming year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Majie lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.