Climate averages 1991–2020
Ningde weather
in May.
A warm, very 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 Ningde: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 235 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 26 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fu’an (49 km away). In May its highs average 26.8°C, about as warm as Ningde, with 193 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Ningde ranks joint 228th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 780th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Ningde is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 235 mm to 295 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
Ningde climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.8°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 65 | 9.4 | 10.711 h |
| February | 16.0°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 77 | 11.4 | 11.211 h |
| March | 19.1°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 135 | 15.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.6°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 146 | 15.7 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 27.0°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 235 | 17.6 | 13.413 h |
| June | 30.0°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 295 | 20.1 | 13.814 h |
| July | 33.0°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 223 | 18.8 | 13.614 h |
| August | 31.9°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 287 | 23.1 | 13.113 h |
| September | 29.3°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 172 | 15.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.4°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 67 | 8.4 | 11.512 h |
| November | 21.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 74 | 9.8 | 10.911 h |
| December | 16.5°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 62 | 9.3 | 10.510 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
- Fu’an in MayChina · 49 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 18.6°C · 193 mm rain
- Songcheng in MayChina · 53 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 19.5°C · 191 mm rain
- Fuzhou in MayChina · 70 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.2°C · 226 mm rain
- Fuding in MayChina · 101 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 200 mm rain
- Nanping in MayChina · 134 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 20.1°C · 223 mm rain
- Jinxiang in MayChina · 137 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 19.3°C · 183 mm rain
- Putian in MayChina · 145 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 20.2°C · 191 mm rain
- Rui’an in MayChina · 167 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 18.6°C · 174 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 Ningde) is explained once on the Ningde year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.