Climate averages 1991–2020

Shaoxing weather
in May.

A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 26.2°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 17.0°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 171 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a warm month in Shaoxing: daytime highs average 26.2°C and nights cool to about 17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 171 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 39 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Shangyu (28 km away). In May its highs average 26.1°C, about as warm as Shaoxing, with 166 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shaoxing ranks joint 404th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 640th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Shaoxing is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 171 mm to 315 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Shaoxing climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Shaoxing, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	9.0°C1.5°C	1.5°C	83	10.4	10.410 h
February	11.4°C3.0°C	3.0°C	78	10.7	11.111 h
March	15.7°C6.6°C	6.6°C	128	14.2	12.012 h
April	21.6°C11.9°C	11.9°C	138	13.1	12.913 h
May, selected	26.2°C17.0°C	17.0°C	171	13.2	13.614 h
June	28.7°C21.2°C	21.2°C	315	17.2	14.014 h
July	33.3°C25.5°C	25.5°C	178	13.7	13.914 h
August	32.7°C25.3°C	25.3°C	156	16.1	13.213 h
September	28.1°C21.0°C	21.0°C	111	12.0	12.412 h
October	23.2°C15.4°C	15.4°C	66	6.9	11.511 h
November	17.7°C9.6°C	9.6°C	70	8.7	10.711 h
December	11.4°C3.4°C	3.4°C	63	7.8	10.310 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

Distance from Shaoxing

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Shaoxing) is explained once on the Shaoxing year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.