Climate averages 1991–2020
Nanyang weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Nanyang: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 16.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 85 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 50 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhenping (30 km away). In May its highs average 27.1°C, about as warm as Nanyang, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Nanyang ranks joint 179th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 430th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Nanyang is 2.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 30.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 85 mm to 126 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
Nanyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.0°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 13 | 3.0 | 10.210 h |
| February | 11.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 21 | 3.8 | 11.011 h |
| March | 16.2°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 39 | 6.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.5°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 51 | 6.6 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 27.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 85 | 8.2 | 13.814 h |
| June | 30.9°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 126 | 8.7 | 14.314 h |
| July | 31.3°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 213 | 14.5 | 14.114 h |
| August | 30.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 160 | 13.6 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.5°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 81 | 8.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.1°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 54 | 6.5 | 11.411 h |
| November | 15.6°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 40 | 5.4 | 10.510 h |
| December | 9.8°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 13 | 3.1 | 10.010 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
- Zhenping in MayChina · 30 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 16.0°C · 84 mm rain
- Tanghe in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 16.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Fangcheng in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 16.0°C · 78 mm rain
- Yunyang in MayChina · 52 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 15.7°C · 73 mm rain
- Dengzhou in MayChina · 56 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 16.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Zaoyang in MayChina · 100 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 17.1°C · 100 mm rain
- Laohekou in MayChina · 107 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 16.9°C · 81 mm rain
- Pingdingshan in MayChina · 108 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 64 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 Nanyang) is explained once on the Nanyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.