Climate averages 1991–2020
Nancun weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 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 Nancun: daytime highs average 25.0°C and nights cool to about 13.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 05 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Liaolan (28 km away). In May its highs average 25.8°C, 0.7°C warmer than Nancun, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nancun ranks joint 568th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 221st of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Nancun is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 mm to 70 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
Nancun climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.0°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 9.1 | 1.9 | 10.010 h |
| February | 7.0°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 15 | 3.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 12.7°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 21 | 4.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.5°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 36 | 4.7 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 25.0°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 59 | 6.1 | 14.114 h |
| June | 28.8°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 70 | 6.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 30.2°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 181 | 12.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.3°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 164 | 12.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.0°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 69 | 6.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 20.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 31 | 4.6 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.8°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 28 | 4.1 | 10.310 h |
| December | 5.9°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 12 | 2.5 | 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
- Liaolan in MayChina · 28 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 13.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Jiaozhou in MayChina · 30 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 13.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Jiangzhuang in MayChina · 31 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 13.4°C · 60 mm rain
- Yuanshang in MayChina · 32 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 12.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Pingdu in MayChina · 33 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 13.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Jimo in MayChina · 33 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 13.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Gaomi in MayChina · 38 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 13.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Jiangshan in MayChina · 39 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 12.9°C · 60 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 Nancun) is explained once on the Nancun year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.