Climate averages 1991–2020
Wensu weather
in May.
A warm, very dry month: the 4th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Wensu: daytime highs average 24.4°C and nights cool to about 11.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 14 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a very dry month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 28 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aqsu (11 km away). In May its highs average 25.7°C, 1.2°C warmer than Wensu, with 14 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wensu ranks joint 620th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 12th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Wensu is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.7°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 14 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
Wensu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -2.6°C-9.6°C | -9.6°C | 1.5 | 0.5 | 9.610 h |
| February | 2.8°C-6.0°C | -6.0°C | 6.3 | 1.7 | 10.611 h |
| March | 11.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 8.2 | 2.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.6°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 10 | 2.3 | 13.313 h |
| May, selected | 24.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 14 | 3.5 | 14.514 h |
| June | 28.1°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 14 | 3.6 | 15.115 h |
| July | 29.5°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 14 | 4.2 | 14.815 h |
| August | 28.0°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 21 | 5.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 23.4°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 22 | 4.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.0°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 12 | 2.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 6.6°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 6.4 | 1.6 | 9.910 h |
| December | -1.0°C-6.8°C | -6.8°C | 3.0 | 0.7 | 9.39 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
- Aqsu in MayChina · 11 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 11.2°C · 14 mm rain
- Ālā'ĕr in MayChina · 119 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 15.3°C · 6.6 mm rain
- Tumxuk in MayChina · 185 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 9.2 mm rain
- Karakol in MayKyrgyzstan · 204 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 2.7°C · 101 mm rain
- Xincheng in MayChina · 230 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 13.5°C · 12 mm rain
- Ghulja in MayChina · 307 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 10.2°C · 40 mm rain
- Huocheng in MayChina · 313 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 10.3°C · 26 mm rain
- Qarasu in MayChina · 326 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 9.7°C · 50 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 Wensu) is explained once on the Wensu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Aqsu lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.