Climate averages 1991–2020
Tonghua weather
in May.
A mild, 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 mild month in Tonghua: daytime highs average 19.5°C and nights cool to about 7.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Baishan (48 km away). In May its highs average 19.1°C, about as warm as Tonghua, with 105 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Tonghua ranks joint 826th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 446th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Tonghua is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.5°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 119 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Tonghua climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -7.5°C-20.5°C | -20.5°C | 12 | 3.1 | 9.510 h |
| February | -3.1°C-16.5°C | -16.5°C | 20 | 4.4 | 10.611 h |
| March | 4.4°C-7.2°C | -7.2°C | 35 | 6.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.2°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 61 | 9.2 | 13.313 h |
| May, selected | 19.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 90 | 12.3 | 14.515 h |
| June | 24.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 119 | 14.2 | 15.115 h |
| July | 26.3°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 201 | 17.3 | 14.915 h |
| August | 25.7°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 201 | 14.7 | 13.914 h |
| September | 21.1°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 77 | 8.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 13.1°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 55 | 8.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 3.0°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 45 | 8.1 | 9.910 h |
| December | -5.6°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 19 | 4.8 | 9.29 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Baishan in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 7.4°C · 105 mm rain
- Huanren in MayChina · 69 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 8.5°C · 93 mm rain
- Manp’o in MayNorth Korea · 70 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 9.4°C · 111 mm rain
- Meihekou in MayChina · 92 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 8.3°C · 77 mm rain
- Kanggye in MayNorth Korea · 100 kmHigh 20.0°C · Low 8.0°C · 109 mm rain
- Chaoyang, China in MayChina · 105 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 8.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Panshi in MayChina · 136 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 8.0°C · 82 mm rain
- Longshan in MayChina · 145 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 9.2°C · 66 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 Tonghua) is explained once on the Tonghua year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.