Climate averages 1991–2020
Mengzi weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 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 Mengzi: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 164 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 15 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gejiu (23 km away). In May its highs average 24.7°C, 2.0°C cooler than Mengzi, with 113 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Mengzi ranks joint 278th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 624th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Mengzi is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 164 mm to 230 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
Mengzi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.6°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 36 | 7.6 | 10.911 h |
| February | 19.4°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 28 | 7.1 | 11.411 h |
| March | 23.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 58 | 11.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.9°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 91 | 16.0 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 26.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 164 | 20.4 | 13.313 h |
| June | 26.5°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 230 | 24.5 | 13.514 h |
| July | 25.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 281 | 27.1 | 13.413 h |
| August | 25.9°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 273 | 26.4 | 12.913 h |
| September | 24.8°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 143 | 20.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 22.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 84 | 15.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 19.9°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 39 | 7.3 | 11.011 h |
| December | 16.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 27 | 5.8 | 10.711 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
- Gejiu in MayChina · 23 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.3°C · 113 mm rain
- Kaiyuan (Yunnan), China in MayChina · 38 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 18.2°C · 76 mm rain
- Wenshan City in MayChina · 89 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 17.9°C · 107 mm rain
- Lào Cai in MayVietnam · 115 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.5°C · 199 mm rain
- Miyang in MayChina · 115 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 17.4°C · 86 mm rain
- Zhongshu in MayChina · 134 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.7°C · 112 mm rain
- Yuxi in MayChina · 139 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.6°C · 97 mm rain
- Haikou, China in MayChina · 177 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 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 Mengzi) is explained once on the Mengzi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.