Climate averages 1991–2020
Lu’an weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Lu’an: daytime highs average 26.4°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 106 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 45 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wuyang (38 km away). In May its highs average 26.8°C, about as warm as Lu’an, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lu’an ranks joint 359th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 483rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Lu’an is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 106 mm to 173 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
Lu’an climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 47 | 7.2 | 10.310 h |
| February | 10.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 50 | 7.8 | 11.011 h |
| March | 15.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 72 | 9.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.9°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 83 | 9.1 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 26.4°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 106 | 10.2 | 13.814 h |
| June | 29.1°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 173 | 11.5 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.7°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 183 | 14.8 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.9°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 150 | 15.3 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 77 | 8.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.4°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 56 | 6.8 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.3°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 48 | 6.7 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.2°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 31 | 5.4 | 10.110 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
- Wuyang in MayChina · 38 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 16.6°C · 109 mm rain
- Hefei in MayChina · 74 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.2°C · 113 mm rain
- Lucheng in MayChina · 91 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 148 mm rain
- Huainan in MayChina · 109 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 16.7°C · 90 mm rain
- Chaohu in MayChina · 129 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.6°C · 135 mm rain
- Anqing in MayChina · 145 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 201 mm rain
- Fuyang in MayChina · 145 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Huangchuan in MayChina · 146 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 16.9°C · 106 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 Lu’an) is explained once on the Lu’an year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.