Climate averages 1991–2020
Qingdao weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Qingdao: daytime highs average 18.0°C and nights cool to about 13.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 03 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jimo (37 km away). In May its highs average 22.8°C, 4.8°C warmer than Qingdao, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qingdao ranks joint 867th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 344th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Qingdao is 7.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 21.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 71 mm to 80 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
Qingdao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.5°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 13 | 2.8 | 10.010 h |
| February | 4.8°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 8.3°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 28 | 4.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.0°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 44 | 5.5 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 18.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 71 | 5.9 | 14.114 h |
| June | 21.9°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 80 | 5.9 | 14.615 h |
| July | 25.9°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 158 | 10.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 27.2°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 163 | 11.2 | 13.514 h |
| September | 24.3°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 85 | 6.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 19.2°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 44 | 5.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 12.5°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 39 | 5.0 | 10.310 h |
| December | 6.0°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 20 | 3.6 | 9.810 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
- Jimo in MayChina · 37 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 13.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Jiaozhou in MayChina · 42 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 13.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Yinzhu in MayChina · 42 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Nancun in MayChina · 57 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 13.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Baicheng, China in MayChina · 61 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 13.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Linjiacun in MayChina · 66 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 13.7°C · 63 mm rain
- Gaomi in MayChina · 67 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 13.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Jiangshan in MayChina · 69 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 12.9°C · 60 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 Qingdao) is explained once on the Qingdao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.