Climate averages 1991–2020

Tengyue weather
in May.

A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 23.5°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 13.8°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 166 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Tengyue · average highYear overview

May is a warm month in Tengyue: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 13.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 166 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 21 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Longling County (49 km away). In May its highs average 24.5°C, 1.0°C warmer than Tengyue, with 206 mm of rain.

Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tengyue ranks joint 676th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 629th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Tengyue is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 23.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 166 mm to 301 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 5000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Tengyue climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tengyue, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 16.6°C3.0°C3.0°C335.010.811 h
February 18.2°C4.4°C4.4°C426.911.311 h
March 21.0°C7.4°C7.4°C6610.312.012 h
April 22.9°C10.5°C10.5°C8713.712.713 h
May, selected 23.5°C13.8°C13.8°C16619.413.313 h
June 23.0°C16.7°C16.7°C30127.013.714 h
July 22.3°C17.2°C17.2°C45130.113.514 h
August 23.3°C17.2°C17.2°C33329.013.013 h
September 23.0°C16.0°C16.0°C18824.712.312 h
October 21.5°C13.0°C13.0°C12716.411.612 h
November 19.1°C7.9°C7.9°C405.411.011 h
December 17.1°C4.2°C4.2°C203.310.611 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

Distance from Tengyue

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tengyue) is explained once on the Tengyue year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.