Climate averages 1991–2020
Qufu weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 4th 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 warm month in Qufu: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 15.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 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 01 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yanzhou (15 km away). In May its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Qufu, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Qufu ranks joint 311th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 252nd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Qufu is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.2°C to 30.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 83 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
Qufu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 9.6 | 2.3 | 10.010 h |
| February | 8.8°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 15 | 3.0 | 10.911 h |
| March | 14.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 25 | 3.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 21.3°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 40 | 5.4 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 26.6°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 61 | 6.0 | 14.014 h |
| June | 30.9°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 83 | 7.5 | 14.515 h |
| July | 31.1°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 230 | 14.3 | 14.314 h |
| August | 29.8°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 186 | 13.0 | 13.514 h |
| September | 26.3°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 77 | 7.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.1°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 32 | 4.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.4°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 29 | 4.1 | 10.310 h |
| December | 6.8°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 11 | 2.5 | 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
- Yanzhou in MayChina · 15 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 15.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Zoucheng in MayChina · 22 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 15.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Ningyang in MayChina · 26 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 14.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Sishui in MayChina · 26 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 15.1°C · 63 mm rain
- Jining in MayChina · 43 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 15.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Pingyi in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 14.3°C · 66 mm rain
- Chengtangcun in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Tai’an in MayChina · 66 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 14.2°C · 58 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 Qufu) is explained once on the Qufu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Zoucheng lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.