Climate averages 1991–2020
Longyan 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 Longyan: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 20.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 246 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th 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 Zhangzhou (90 km away). In May its highs average 28.2°C, 0.6°C warmer than Longyan, with 189 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Longyan ranks joint 168th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 798th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Longyan is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 246 mm to 264 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
Longyan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.2°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 62 | 7.7 | 10.811 h |
| February | 18.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 97 | 11.2 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 167 | 17.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.9°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 194 | 17.6 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 27.5°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 246 | 20.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 264 | 22.2 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.4°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 180 | 19.0 | 13.514 h |
| August | 31.2°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 223 | 20.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.7°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 126 | 15.5 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.2°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 56 | 6.9 | 11.612 h |
| November | 23.4°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 49 | 6.4 | 10.911 h |
| December | 18.5°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 50 | 6.3 | 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
- Zhangzhou in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 20.9°C · 189 mm rain
- Meizhou in MayChina · 126 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.5°C · 224 mm rain
- Xiamen in MayChina · 126 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 21.0°C · 184 mm rain
- Ximeicun in MayChina · 138 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.3°C · 172 mm rain
- Sanming in MayChina · 144 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 20.5°C · 222 mm rain
- Huanggang (Guangdong), China in MayChina · 155 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 21.8°C · 194 mm rain
- Quanzhou in MayChina · 159 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.6°C · 172 mm rain
- Jinjiang in MayChina · 159 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 20.8°C · 156 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 Longyan) is explained once on the Longyan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.