Climate averages 1991–2020
Lushui weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
Approximate: the model cell is 910 m higher than the city, so the temperatures are adjusted up by 5.9°C. For places not marked Approximate, the cell is within 400 m of the place's elevation.
May is a hot month in Lushui: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 233 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Baoshan (Yunnan), China (84 km away). In May its highs average 24.3°C, 5.2°C cooler than Lushui, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Lushui ranks joint 28th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 778th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Lushui is 4.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 233 mm to 289 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
Lushui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.9°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 62 | 6.9 | 10.711 h |
| February | 23.4°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 96 | 10.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 26.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 173 | 15.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 28.2°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 197 | 18.6 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 29.5°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 233 | 20.9 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 289 | 25.1 | 13.714 h |
| July | 29.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 384 | 29.4 | 13.614 h |
| August | 30.0°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 296 | 27.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.1°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 227 | 23.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 163 | 15.6 | 11.612 h |
| November | 25.0°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 53 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| December | 22.8°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 27 | 4.2 | 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
- Baoshan (Yunnan), China in MayChina · 84 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.0°C · 115 mm rain
- Tengyue in MayChina · 98 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 13.8°C · 166 mm rain
- Dali Old Town in MayChina · 131 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.3°C · 97 mm rain
- Dali in MayChina · 138 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 90 mm rain
- Longling County in MayChina · 139 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 15.6°C · 206 mm rain
- Myitkyina in MayMyanmar · 155 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 22.4°C · 216 mm rain
- Yingjiang in MayChina · 155 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 21.0°C · 311 mm rain
- Menghuan in MayChina · 157 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 20.0°C · 158 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 Lushui) is explained once on the Lushui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.