Climate averages 1991–2020
Quanzhou weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Quanzhou: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 20.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 172 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jinjiang (11 km away). In May its highs average 26.5°C, 0.8°C cooler than Quanzhou, with 156 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Quanzhou ranks joint 190th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 644th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Quanzhou is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 172 mm to 218 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
Quanzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.0°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 33 | 5.0 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.8°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 46 | 7.6 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 80 | 11.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.5°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 93 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 27.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 172 | 14.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.3°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 218 | 17.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.5°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 175 | 15.2 | 13.514 h |
| August | 31.1°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 245 | 18.4 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.7°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 123 | 12.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.0°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 52 | 3.8 | 11.612 h |
| November | 23.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 47 | 4.7 | 11.011 h |
| December | 18.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 36 | 4.6 | 10.611 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
- Jinjiang in MayChina · 11 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 20.8°C · 156 mm rain
- Ximeicun in MayChina · 22 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.3°C · 172 mm rain
- Xiamen in MayChina · 70 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 21.0°C · 184 mm rain
- Putian in MayChina · 72 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 20.2°C · 191 mm rain
- Zhangzhou in MayChina · 104 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 20.9°C · 189 mm rain
- Fuzhou in MayChina · 147 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 19.2°C · 226 mm rain
- Longyan in MayChina · 159 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.2°C · 246 mm rain
- Sanming in MayChina · 177 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 20.5°C · 222 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 Quanzhou) is explained once on the Quanzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ximeicun lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.