Climate averages 1991–2020
Shaoguan weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Shaoguan: daytime highs average 27.7°C and nights cool to about 21.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 306 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th 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 Maba (13 km away). In May its highs average 27.8°C, about as warm as Shaoguan, with 306 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoguan ranks joint 153rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 863rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Shaoguan is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 306 mm to 333 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
Shaoguan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.0°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 72 | 9.7 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.0°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 83 | 11.9 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 177 | 17.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.6°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 225 | 18.0 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 27.7°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 306 | 21.1 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.7°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 333 | 23.0 | 13.614 h |
| July | 31.6°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 186 | 19.5 | 13.514 h |
| August | 31.9°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 208 | 19.9 | 13.013 h |
| September | 30.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 137 | 12.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.2°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 63 | 6.8 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.1°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 69 | 7.7 | 11.011 h |
| December | 16.9°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 55 | 7.5 | 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
- Maba in MayChina · 13 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.4°C · 306 mm rain
- Lecheng in MayChina · 43 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.6°C · 246 mm rain
- Shixing in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.1°C · 272 mm rain
- Xiongzhou in MayChina · 80 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 20.9°C · 239 mm rain
- Lianzhou in MayChina · 122 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.9°C · 288 mm rain
- Chenzhou in MayChina · 124 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.4°C · 240 mm rain
- Qingyuan in MayChina · 134 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 22.4°C · 389 mm rain
- Heyuan in MayChina · 163 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 22.4°C · 240 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 Shaoguan) is explained once on the Shaoguan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Maba lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.