Climate averages 1991–2020
Shantou weather
in May.
A warm, very 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 Shantou: daytime highs average 27.1°C and nights cool to about 22.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 185 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 15 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chenghua (15 km away). In May its highs average 26.9°C, about as warm as Shantou, with 191 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shantou ranks joint 213th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 677th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Shantou is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 185 mm to 239 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
Shantou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.8°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 45 | 6.3 | 10.911 h |
| February | 18.5°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 64 | 9.7 | 11.411 h |
| March | 21.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 79 | 11.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.4°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 113 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 27.1°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 185 | 15.9 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.1°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 239 | 20.6 | 13.514 h |
| July | 30.2°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 188 | 17.7 | 13.413 h |
| August | 30.0°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 238 | 18.7 | 12.913 h |
| September | 29.2°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 156 | 13.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 26.9°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 56 | 5.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 23.7°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 59 | 5.5 | 11.011 h |
| December | 19.6°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 51 | 5.8 | 10.711 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
- Chenghua in MayChina · 15 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 22.3°C · 191 mm rain
- Haimen in MayChina · 19 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 22.7°C · 191 mm rain
- Chaozhou in MayChina · 34 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 220 mm rain
- Jieyang in MayChina · 38 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.0°C · 193 mm rain
- Huanggang (Guangdong), China in MayChina · 49 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 21.8°C · 194 mm rain
- Puning in MayChina · 52 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 22.2°C · 203 mm rain
- Huicheng (Guangdong), China in MayChina · 53 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 23.0°C · 183 mm rain
- Jiazi in MayChina · 81 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 23.2°C · 206 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 Shantou) is explained once on the Shantou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.