Climate averages 1991–2020
Taozhou 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 Taozhou: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 149 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 42 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Licheng, China (58 km away). In May its highs average 25.6°C, about as warm as Taozhou, with 132 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Taozhou ranks joint 483rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 590th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Taozhou is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 28.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 149 mm to 281 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
Taozhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.9°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 73 | 9.5 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.5°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 75 | 9.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.1°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 112 | 12.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.1°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 123 | 11.1 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 25.7°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 149 | 11.0 | 13.714 h |
| June | 28.2°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 281 | 14.9 | 14.114 h |
| July | 32.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 199 | 15.2 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 167 | 15.9 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.4°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 86 | 10.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 62 | 6.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 54 | 7.8 | 10.611 h |
| December | 10.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 48 | 6.8 | 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
- Licheng, China in MayChina · 58 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.0°C · 132 mm rain
- Xuancheng in MayChina · 63 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 16.8°C · 160 mm rain
- Yixing in MayChina · 64 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.8°C · 152 mm rain
- Huzhou in MayChina · 65 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 17.2°C · 155 mm rain
- Deqing in MayChina · 66 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 16.4°C · 171 mm rain
- Hangzhou in MayChina · 99 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.9°C · 156 mm rain
- Linping in MayChina · 101 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.9°C · 159 mm rain
- Wuhu in MayChina · 106 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 17.3°C · 148 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 Taozhou) is explained once on the Taozhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.