Climate averages 1991–2020
Tianshui weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Tianshui: daytime highs average 22.6°C and nights cool to about 11.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 77 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 57 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Beidao (14 km away). In May its highs average 22.6°C, about as warm as Tianshui, with 74 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tianshui ranks joint 712th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 392nd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Tianshui is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 77 mm to 93 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
Tianshui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 11 | 3.8 | 10.110 h |
| February | 6.8°C-2.5°C | -2.5°C | 16 | 4.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 12.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 31 | 7.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.7°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 50 | 8.6 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 22.6°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 77 | 10.8 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 93 | 10.0 | 14.414 h |
| July | 28.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 123 | 12.2 | 14.214 h |
| August | 27.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 122 | 11.9 | 13.413 h |
| September | 21.9°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 116 | 13.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 16.5°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 75 | 12.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 10.6°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 26 | 6.3 | 10.410 h |
| December | 4.9°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 9.7 | 2.9 | 9.910 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
- Beidao in MayChina · 14 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 11.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Xingguo in MayChina · 32 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 10.8°C · 67 mm rain
- Gangu Chengguanzhen in MayChina · 42 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 10.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Xinxing in MayChina · 44 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 10.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Pan’an in MayChina · 61 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 10.6°C · 67 mm rain
- Luomen in MayChina · 68 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 10.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Pingliang in MayChina · 137 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 9.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Baoji in MayChina · 139 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 13.0°C · 106 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 Tianshui) is explained once on the Tianshui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.