Climate averages 1991–2020
Ningbo weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Ningbo: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 16.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 162 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 38 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fenghua (28 km away). In May its highs average 24.9°C, about as warm as Ningbo, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ningbo ranks joint 598th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 615th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Ningbo is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 162 mm to 292 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
Ningbo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.1°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 88 | 11.0 | 10.510 h |
| February | 10.9°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 80 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.7°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 130 | 13.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.2°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 129 | 12.8 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 162 | 12.6 | 13.614 h |
| June | 27.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 292 | 17.3 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.1°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 158 | 13.9 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 175 | 16.2 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.2°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 153 | 13.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 90 | 7.5 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.6°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 79 | 9.7 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.6°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 75 | 8.4 | 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
- Fenghua in MayChina · 28 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.8°C · 163 mm rain
- Yuyao in MayChina · 43 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 16.8°C · 161 mm rain
- Cixi in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 17.1°C · 144 mm rain
- Zhoushan in MayChina · 64 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 150 mm rain
- Shangyu in MayChina · 67 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Shenjiamen in MayChina · 73 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 17.6°C · 150 mm rain
- Shaoxing in MayChina · 95 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 17.0°C · 171 mm rain
- Jinshan in MayChina · 109 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 17.2°C · 140 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 Ningbo) is explained once on the Ningbo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.