Climate averages 1991–2020
Shahecheng weather
in May.
A hot, fairly dry 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 hot month in Shahecheng: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 07 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xingtai (14 km away). In May its highs average 28.2°C, about as warm as Shahecheng, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shahecheng ranks joint 91st of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 52nd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Shahecheng is 3.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 32.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 35 mm to 58 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
Shahecheng climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 3.5 | 0.9 | 9.910 h |
| February | 8.9°C-2.9°C | -2.9°C | 6.1 | 1.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 9.9 | 2.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.8°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 28 | 4.4 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 28.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 35 | 5.2 | 14.114 h |
| June | 32.4°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 58 | 6.7 | 14.615 h |
| July | 32.1°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 148 | 12.0 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.9°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 130 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.6°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 48 | 6.3 | 12.512 h |
| October | 21.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 24 | 3.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 13.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 16 | 3.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 6.4°C-4.2°C | -4.2°C | 4.0 | 1.2 | 9.710 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
- Xingtai in MayChina · 14 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 14.7°C · 35 mm rain
- Handan in MayChina · 37 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 15.5°C · 38 mm rain
- Hecun in MayChina · 57 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 14.2°C · 44 mm rain
- Linshui in MayChina · 63 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 14.7°C · 38 mm rain
- Nangong in MayChina · 91 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 15.8°C · 41 mm rain
- Huaiyang in MayChina · 92 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 14.6°C · 37 mm rain
- Anyang in MayChina · 94 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 15.7°C · 45 mm rain
- Luancheng in MayChina · 106 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 14.9°C · 34 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 Shahecheng) is explained once on the Shahecheng year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Xingtai lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.