Climate averages 1991–2020
Wenzhou weather
in May.
A warm, very 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 Wenzhou: daytime highs average 24.2°C and nights cool to about 18.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 189 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rui’an (25 km away). In May its highs average 23.8°C, about as warm as Wenzhou, with 174 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wenzhou ranks joint 637th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 686th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Wenzhou is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 189 mm to 290 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
Wenzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12.0°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 73 | 10.3 | 10.611 h |
| February | 13.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 82 | 11.7 | 11.211 h |
| March | 15.8°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 134 | 15.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.2°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 132 | 15.1 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 24.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 189 | 15.3 | 13.514 h |
| June | 27.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 290 | 18.3 | 13.914 h |
| July | 30.3°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 191 | 16.3 | 13.714 h |
| August | 30.2°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 254 | 19.8 | 13.113 h |
| September | 27.7°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 171 | 14.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 23.8°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 83 | 7.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 19.3°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 82 | 9.5 | 10.811 h |
| December | 14.2°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 64 | 8.4 | 10.410 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
- Rui’an in MayChina · 25 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 18.6°C · 174 mm rain
- Jinxiang in MayChina · 63 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 19.3°C · 183 mm rain
- Fuding in MayChina · 87 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.7°C · 200 mm rain
- Lishui in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.0°C · 185 mm rain
- Taizhou (Zhejiang), China in MayChina · 105 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.8°C · 168 mm rain
- Guli in MayChina · 116 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Songcheng in MayChina · 141 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 19.5°C · 191 mm rain
- Fu’an in MayChina · 143 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 18.6°C · 193 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 Wenzhou) is explained once on the Wenzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.