Climate averages 1991–2020
Pengze 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 Pengze: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 228 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th 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 Jiujiang (57 km away). In May its highs average 26.3°C, about as warm as Pengze, with 237 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Pengze ranks joint 457th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 767th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Pengze is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 28.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 228 mm to 337 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
Pengze climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 66 | 9.1 | 10.510 h |
| February | 11.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 90 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.4°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 145 | 13.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.4°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 188 | 13.4 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 25.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 228 | 12.8 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.5°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 337 | 15.4 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.7°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 226 | 13.0 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.4°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 142 | 13.1 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.8°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 74 | 8.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.8°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 55 | 5.9 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 58 | 7.1 | 10.711 h |
| December | 10.6°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 44 | 6.5 | 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
- Jiujiang in MayChina · 57 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.0°C · 237 mm rain
- Huangmei in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 231 mm rain
- Anqing in MayChina · 84 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.1°C · 201 mm rain
- Jingdezhen in MayChina · 93 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 18.4°C · 315 mm rain
- Wuxue in MayChina · 96 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.5°C · 197 mm rain
- Poyang in MayChina · 101 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.7°C · 277 mm rain
- Chizhou in MayChina · 123 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 17.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Qingquan in MayChina · 138 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.7°C · 187 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 Pengze) is explained once on the Pengze year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.