Climate averages 1991–2020
Mingshui weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Mingshui: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 06 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhoucun (30 km away). In May its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Mingshui, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Mingshui ranks joint 278th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 199th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Mingshui is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 31.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 57 mm to 77 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
Mingshui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 6.8 | 1.7 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.8°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 14 | 3.0 | 10.811 h |
| March | 14.2°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 18 | 3.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.2°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 37 | 5.4 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 26.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 57 | 6.0 | 14.114 h |
| June | 31.0°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 77 | 8.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 31.6°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 176 | 13.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.8°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 178 | 13.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.3°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 57 | 6.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.7°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 31 | 4.4 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 25 | 4.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 5.9°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 9.5 | 2.2 | 9.710 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
- Zhoucun in MayChina · 30 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Boshan in MayChina · 39 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 13.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Jinan in MayChina · 45 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 15.5°C · 51 mm rain
- Nanding in MayChina · 50 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 15.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Zibo in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 14.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Laiwu in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 13.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Tai’an in MayChina · 68 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 14.2°C · 58 mm rain
- Changqing in MayChina · 71 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 15.4°C · 55 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 Mingshui) is explained once on the Mingshui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.