Climate averages 1991–2020
Qarasu weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Qarasu: daytime highs average 22.7°C and nights cool to about 9.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 45 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Huocheng (40 km away). In May its highs average 23.8°C, 1.1°C warmer than Qarasu, with 26 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qarasu ranks joint 708th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 143rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Qarasu is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 50 mm to 40 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Qarasu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.4°C-12.5°C | -12.5°C | 16 | 4.3 | 9.39 h |
| February | 2.7°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 21 | 4.9 | 10.410 h |
| March | 9.8°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 31 | 7.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 52 | 8.1 | 13.413 h |
| May, selected | 22.7°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 50 | 7.4 | 14.715 h |
| June | 26.5°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 40 | 6.4 | 15.415 h |
| July | 28.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 39 | 4.4 | 15.115 h |
| August | 27.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 26 | 3.6 | 14.014 h |
| September | 23.1°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 17 | 3.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 27 | 5.0 | 11.011 h |
| November | 7.0°C-4.0°C | -4.0°C | 36 | 6.6 | 9.710 h |
| December | 1.0°C-10.2°C | -10.2°C | 22 | 5.3 | 8.99 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Huocheng in MayChina · 40 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 10.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Ghulja in MayChina · 79 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 10.2°C · 40 mm rain
- Sarqant in MayKazakhstan · 140 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 7.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Bole in MayChina · 152 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 10.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Taldykorgan in MayKazakhstan · 185 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 8.9°C · 56 mm rain
- Xinyuan in MayChina · 243 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 6.2°C · 80 mm rain
- Karakol in MayKyrgyzstan · 251 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 101 mm rain
- Almaty in MayKazakhstan · 301 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 7.2°C · 145 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 Qarasu) is explained once on the Qarasu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.