Climate averages 1991–2020
Pingwu County weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Pingwu County: daytime highs average 22.8°C and nights cool to about 15.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 48 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jiangyou (73 km away). In May its highs average 25.4°C, 2.5°C warmer than Pingwu County, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Pingwu County ranks joint 705th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 514th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Pingwu County is 2.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 116 mm to 155 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
Pingwu County climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.6°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 18 | 6.1 | 10.310 h |
| February | 9.0°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 29 | 9.6 | 11.011 h |
| March | 13.7°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 53 | 14.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.3°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 83 | 17.3 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 22.8°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 116 | 19.5 | 13.814 h |
| June | 25.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 155 | 19.9 | 14.214 h |
| July | 27.3°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 271 | 23.8 | 14.114 h |
| August | 26.7°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 236 | 23.2 | 13.313 h |
| September | 22.5°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 204 | 23.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 17.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 121 | 21.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 13.0°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 49 | 12.4 | 10.511 h |
| December | 8.0°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 16 | 5.5 | 10.110 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
- Jiangyou in MayChina · 73 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 16.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Mianyang in MayChina · 105 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Longnan (approximate) in MayChina · 116 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Guangyuan in MayChina · 122 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.9°C · 96 mm rain
- Mianzhu, Deyang, Sichuan in MayChina · 122 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.7°C · 73 mm rain
- Luojiang in MayChina · 123 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 17.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Deyang in MayChina · 143 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Donghe in MayChina · 168 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.4°C · 129 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 Pingwu County) is explained once on the Pingwu County year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.