Climate averages 1991–2020
Shenyang weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th 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 Shenyang: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 11.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dongling (12 km away). In May its highs average 23.1°C, about as warm as Shenyang, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Shenyang ranks joint 683rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 280th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Shenyang is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.1°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 111 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Shenyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -5.4°C-15.9°C | -15.9°C | 6.3 | 1.9 | 9.510 h |
| February | 0.0°C-11.4°C | -11.4°C | 10 | 2.2 | 10.611 h |
| March | 7.8°C-4.2°C | -4.2°C | 22 | 4.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.4°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 46 | 6.3 | 13.313 h |
| May, selected | 23.4°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 63 | 7.8 | 14.515 h |
| June | 27.5°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 111 | 11.3 | 15.215 h |
| July | 29.0°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 188 | 13.7 | 14.915 h |
| August | 27.9°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 189 | 11.9 | 13.914 h |
| September | 23.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 65 | 7.0 | 12.513 h |
| October | 15.7°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 49 | 6.7 | 11.111 h |
| November | 5.2°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 30 | 4.9 | 9.910 h |
| December | -2.7°C-12.2°C | -12.2°C | 13 | 3.0 | 9.29 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Dongling in MayChina · 12 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 11.1°C · 63 mm rain
- Sujiatun in MayChina · 17 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 11.2°C · 61 mm rain
- Fushun in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 10.6°C · 69 mm rain
- Xinmin in MayChina · 55 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 11.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Liaoyang in MayChina · 62 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 11.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Benxi in MayChina · 62 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 9.2°C · 77 mm rain
- Tieling in MayChina · 65 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 10.9°C · 62 mm rain
- Liaozhong in MayChina · 67 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 11.6°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 Shenyang) is explained once on the Shenyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Dongling lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.