Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanchong weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Nanchong: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 17.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 135 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 42 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suining (58 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, 0.6°C warmer than Nanchong, with 102 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchong ranks joint 457th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 562nd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Nanchong is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 135 mm to 184 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
Nanchong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 25 | 6.4 | 10.410 h |
| February | 12.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 29 | 7.2 | 11.111 h |
| March | 17.2°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 55 | 10.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.4°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 96 | 12.0 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 25.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 135 | 13.1 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.5°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 184 | 14.1 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.2°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 216 | 16.8 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 174 | 14.4 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.5°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 138 | 13.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 98 | 14.2 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 57 | 9.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 30 | 6.9 | 10.210 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
- Suining in MayChina · 58 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 102 mm rain
- Guang’an in MayChina · 64 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 171 mm rain
- Zitong in MayChina · 73 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.1°C · 121 mm rain
- Hechuan in MayChina · 91 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.4°C · 146 mm rain
- Bachuan in MayChina · 105 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 18.3°C · 145 mm rain
- Beibei in MayChina · 113 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.7°C · 167 mm rain
- Longgang, China in MayChina · 127 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.9°C · 130 mm rain
- Guixi in MayChina · 131 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 17.9°C · 195 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 Nanchong) is explained once on the Nanchong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.