Climate averages 1991–2020
Tantou weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Tantou: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 258 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 13 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shajing (2 km away). In May its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Tantou, with 258 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tantou ranks joint 76th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 809th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Tantou is 3.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 258 mm to 346 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
Tantou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.2°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 51 | 7.5 | 10.911 h |
| February | 20.5°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 68 | 10.0 | 11.411 h |
| March | 23.2°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 111 | 13.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.2°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 161 | 14.3 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 28.6°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 258 | 19.3 | 13.213 h |
| June | 29.9°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 346 | 22.6 | 13.514 h |
| July | 30.8°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 234 | 21.6 | 13.413 h |
| August | 30.8°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 296 | 22.5 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.1°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 180 | 14.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.3°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 54 | 6.4 | 11.612 h |
| November | 25.0°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 39 | 5.4 | 11.111 h |
| December | 20.5°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 41 | 5.1 | 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
- Shajing in MayChina · 2 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 23.7°C · 258 mm rain
- Humen in MayChina · 18 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.4°C · 258 mm rain
- Bao'an Centre in MayChina · 21 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 23.8°C · 229 mm rain
- Dongguan in MayChina · 31 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 23.2°C · 295 mm rain
- Shenzhen in MayChina · 33 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 23.9°C · 229 mm rain
- Shijie in MayChina · 39 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 22.7°C · 295 mm rain
- Tuen Mun in MayHong Kong · 42 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 23.8°C · 229 mm rain
- Longgang in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 23.4°C · 271 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 Tantou) is explained once on the Tantou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Humen and Shajing lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.