Climate averages 1991–2020
Puqi 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 Puqi: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 18.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 203 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a very 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 Xindi (42 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Puqi, with 206 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Puqi ranks joint 311th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 724th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Puqi is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 203 mm to 267 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
Puqi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.2°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 65 | 9.4 | 10.510 h |
| February | 12.0°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 85 | 10.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 130 | 14.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.4°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 181 | 13.6 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 26.6°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 203 | 13.9 | 13.614 h |
| June | 29.3°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 267 | 15.9 | 14.014 h |
| July | 32.3°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 229 | 14.6 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.9°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 133 | 14.3 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.3°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 93 | 9.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.2°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 68 | 8.1 | 11.511 h |
| November | 17.3°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 66 | 8.2 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.5°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 41 | 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
- Xindi in MayChina · 42 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.8°C · 206 mm rain
- Xianning in MayChina · 45 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.1°C · 198 mm rain
- Xiantao in MayChina · 84 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 17.8°C · 205 mm rain
- Yueyang in MayChina · 85 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.9°C · 243 mm rain
- Caidian in MayChina · 97 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.2°C · 200 mm rain
- Wuhan in MayChina · 103 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.6°C · 190 mm rain
- Hanchuan in MayChina · 104 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.9°C · 185 mm rain
- Daye in MayChina · 111 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 193 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 Puqi) is explained once on the Puqi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.