Climate averages 1991–2020

Ma’anshan 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.

Average high 25.8°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 16.9°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 129 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a warm month in Ma’anshan: daytime highs average 25.8°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 129 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 Wuhu (38 km away). In May its highs average 26.1°C, about as warm as Ma’anshan, with 148 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ma’anshan ranks joint 472nd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 548th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Ma’anshan is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 129 mm to 238 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Ma’anshan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Ma’anshan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	7.8°C-0.3°C	-0.3°C	59	8.3	10.310 h
February	10.5°C1.7°C	1.7°C	61	8.4	11.011 h
March	15.1°C5.8°C	5.8°C	89	10.4	12.012 h
April	21.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	103	9.2	12.913 h
May, selected	25.8°C16.9°C	16.9°C	129	10.3	13.814 h
June	28.5°C21.0°C	21.0°C	238	12.0	14.214 h
July	31.5°C25.0°C	25.0°C	201	14.4	14.014 h
August	31.1°C24.7°C	24.7°C	172	14.5	13.313 h
September	27.3°C20.1°C	20.1°C	80	8.3	12.412 h
October	22.5°C14.2°C	14.2°C	55	6.3	11.411 h
November	16.5°C7.9°C	7.9°C	52	6.9	10.611 h
December	10.1°C1.7°C	1.7°C	36	5.8	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

Distance from Ma’anshan

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ma’anshan) is explained once on the Ma’anshan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.