Climate averages 1991–2020
Tangping weather
in May.
A hot, 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 hot month in Tangping: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 23.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 266 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yangjiang (20 km away). In May its highs average 29.1°C, about as warm as Tangping, with 263 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tangping ranks joint 47th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 817th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Tangping is 3.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 266 mm to 325 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
Tangping climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.9°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 27 | 4.3 | 10.911 h |
| February | 21.2°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 31 | 6.9 | 11.411 h |
| March | 24.0°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 62 | 11.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 137 | 16.0 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 29.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 266 | 22.8 | 13.213 h |
| June | 30.1°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 325 | 25.4 | 13.513 h |
| July | 30.6°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 284 | 24.7 | 13.313 h |
| August | 30.7°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 333 | 25.6 | 12.913 h |
| September | 29.8°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 213 | 18.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.0°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 83 | 8.4 | 11.712 h |
| November | 25.2°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 32 | 5.3 | 11.111 h |
| December | 21.1°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 26 | 4.1 | 10.811 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
- Yangjiang in MayChina · 20 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 23.6°C · 263 mm rain
- Yangchun in MayChina · 22 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 262 mm rain
- Encheng in MayChina · 42 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 23.3°C · 270 mm rain
- Changsha, China in MayChina · 86 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.3°C · 249 mm rain
- Taishan in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 23.6°C · 249 mm rain
- Yunfu in MayChina · 100 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 23.1°C · 233 mm rain
- Xinyi in MayChina · 109 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.9°C · 267 mm rain
- Gaozhou in MayChina · 112 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.4°C · 269 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 Tangping) is explained once on the Tangping year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.