Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanchuan 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 Nanchuan: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 16.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 191 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 35 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wansheng (27 km away). In May its highs average 25.8°C, 1.1°C warmer than Nanchuan, with 195 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanchuan ranks joint 598th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 694th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Nanchuan is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 191 mm to 197 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
Nanchuan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.3°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 36 | 9.4 | 10.511 h |
| February | 12.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 43 | 10.2 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.2°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 85 | 15.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.2°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 134 | 17.2 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.7°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 191 | 18.2 | 13.614 h |
| June | 27.4°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 197 | 18.7 | 14.014 h |
| July | 30.5°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 188 | 17.6 | 13.814 h |
| August | 30.4°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 170 | 17.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 26.3°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 123 | 13.7 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.5°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 121 | 16.4 | 11.511 h |
| November | 15.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 80 | 12.5 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 42 | 10.0 | 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
- Wansheng in MayChina · 27 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.9°C · 195 mm rain
- Gunan in MayChina · 47 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.2°C · 179 mm rain
- Banan in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.6°C · 163 mm rain
- Wulong (approximate) in MayChina · 67 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 19.5°C · 209 mm rain
- Lidu in MayChina · 68 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.2°C · 179 mm rain
- Fuling in MayChina · 68 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.0°C · 180 mm rain
- Luohuang in MayChina · 68 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 18.5°C · 172 mm rain
- Chongqing in MayChina · 70 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 18.0°C · 163 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 Nanchuan) is explained once on the Nanchuan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.