Climate averages 1991–2020
Songling weather
in May.
A warm, 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 Songling: daytime highs average 25.2°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 132 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Suzhou (17 km away). In May its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as Songling, with 142 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Songling ranks joint 551st of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 555th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Songling is level with that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 28.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 132 mm to 274 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
Songling climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.2°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 64 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 64 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.7°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 93 | 11.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.4°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 108 | 10.7 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 25.2°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 132 | 10.3 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.0°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 274 | 14.2 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.8°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 170 | 13.9 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.4°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 159 | 15.0 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.4°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 91 | 9.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.7°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 51 | 5.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.0°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 55 | 7.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.6°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 43 | 6.3 | 10.210 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
- Suzhou in MayChina · 17 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.2°C · 142 mm rain
- Kunshan in MayChina · 30 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.2°C · 123 mm rain
- Qingpu in MayChina · 38 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.3°C · 131 mm rain
- Xiayang in MayChina · 38 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 131 mm rain
- Taicang in MayChina · 46 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.3°C · 123 mm rain
- Jiaxing in MayChina · 49 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 16.7°C · 151 mm rain
- Changshu in MayChina · 50 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 16.0°C · 118 mm rain
- Songjiang in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.5°C · 139 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 Songling) is explained once on the Songling year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.