Climate averages 1991–2020
Lishui 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 Lishui: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 185 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 33 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Guli (48 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Lishui, with 188 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lishui ranks joint 278th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 677th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Lishui is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 185 mm to 292 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
Lishui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.9°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 63 | 9.5 | 10.511 h |
| February | 13.3°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 64 | 10.4 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.2°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 116 | 14.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.8°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 130 | 14.2 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 26.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 185 | 14.8 | 13.514 h |
| June | 29.3°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 292 | 17.6 | 13.914 h |
| July | 33.2°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 130 | 12.5 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.7°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 147 | 14.7 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.7°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 104 | 11.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 24.0°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 57 | 6.7 | 11.512 h |
| November | 18.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 65 | 7.6 | 10.811 h |
| December | 13.0°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 53 | 7.4 | 10.410 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
- Guli in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Jinhua in MayChina · 76 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 209 mm rain
- Wenzhou in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 18.1°C · 189 mm rain
- Lanxi (Zhejiang), China in MayChina · 94 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 180 mm rain
- Dongyang in MayChina · 95 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.2°C · 162 mm rain
- Yiwu in MayChina · 96 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.4°C · 173 mm rain
- Rui’an in MayChina · 106 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 18.6°C · 174 mm rain
- Puyang in MayChina · 111 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.1°C · 184 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 Lishui) is explained once on the Lishui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.