Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanbin weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Nanbin: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 203 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sanhe, China (39 km away). In May its highs average 26.1°C, 1.8°C warmer than Nanbin, with 213 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanbin ranks joint 628th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 724th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Nanbin is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 203 mm to 207 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
Nanbin climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 38 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| February | 11.5°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 50 | 10.3 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.7°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 94 | 14.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 149 | 15.6 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.3°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 203 | 17.6 | 13.614 h |
| June | 27.3°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 207 | 16.9 | 14.014 h |
| July | 30.0°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 191 | 16.5 | 13.914 h |
| August | 29.9°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 160 | 15.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 25.9°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 143 | 12.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.4°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 130 | 15.0 | 11.511 h |
| November | 15.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 92 | 11.5 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.7°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 46 | 9.9 | 10.310 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
- Sanhe, China in MayChina · 39 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.2°C · 213 mm rain
- Fuling in MayChina · 76 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.0°C · 180 mm rain
- Hanjia in MayChina · 78 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 18.7°C · 216 mm rain
- Lichuan in MayChina · 79 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 13.6°C · 226 mm rain
- Liangping in MayChina · 81 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.5°C · 213 mm rain
- Wulong (approximate) in MayChina · 82 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 19.5°C · 209 mm rain
- Guixi in MayChina · 82 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 17.9°C · 195 mm rain
- Qianjiang (Chongqing), China in MayChina · 83 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.0°C · 204 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 Nanbin) is explained once on the Nanbin year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.