Climate averages 1991–2020
Lincang weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: one of 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 Lincang: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 16.3°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 137 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jianshui (123 km away). In May its highs average 24.0°C, 2.9°C cooler than Lincang, with 176 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lincang ranks joint 244th of 884 for the warmest May highs and 564th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Lincang is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 26.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 137 mm to 203 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
Lincang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.2°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 31 | 4.6 | 10.811 h |
| February | 21.9°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 27 | 4.8 | 11.311 h |
| March | 25.0°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 34 | 6.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.9°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 62 | 10.0 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 26.9°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 137 | 16.0 | 13.313 h |
| June | 26.2°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 203 | 25.8 | 13.614 h |
| July | 25.2°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 308 | 29.2 | 13.513 h |
| August | 25.5°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 281 | 28.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 24.8°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 194 | 24.5 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 130 | 19.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 20.8°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 47 | 7.2 | 11.011 h |
| December | 18.7°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 19 | 4.1 | 10.711 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
- Jianshui in MayChina · 123 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 14.3°C · 176 mm rain
- Ning’er in MayChina · 134 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.2°C · 172 mm rain
- Menglang in MayChina · 148 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 19.7°C · 142 mm rain
- Pu'er in MayChina · 151 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 18.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Longling County in MayChina · 163 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.6°C · 206 mm rain
- Menghuan in MayChina · 165 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 20.0°C · 158 mm rain
- Baoshan (Yunnan), China in MayChina · 167 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Micheng in MayChina · 167 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 15.4°C · 90 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 Lincang) is explained once on the Lincang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.