Climate averages 1991–2020
Wuzhishan weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Wuzhishan: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 23.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 186 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sanya (59 km away). In May its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Wuzhishan, with 139 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Wuzhishan ranks joint 12th of 884 for the warmest May highs and 683rd of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Wuzhishan is 5.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 186 mm to 188 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
Wuzhishan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.9°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 15 | 3.9 | 11.111 h |
| February | 24.7°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 21 | 5.2 | 11.512 h |
| March | 27.4°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 35 | 7.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 29.4°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 97 | 14.2 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 30.2°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 186 | 22.6 | 13.013 h |
| June | 30.1°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 188 | 23.6 | 13.213 h |
| July | 29.9°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 248 | 24.4 | 13.113 h |
| August | 29.7°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 274 | 26.3 | 12.813 h |
| September | 29.1°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 248 | 24.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.6°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 152 | 15.0 | 11.712 h |
| November | 25.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 53 | 7.1 | 11.311 h |
| December | 22.9°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 24 | 3.9 | 11.011 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
- Sanya in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 26.0°C · 139 mm rain
- Yaxing in MayChina · 78 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.9°C · 156 mm rain
- Dacheng in MayChina · 82 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 24.0°C · 185 mm rain
- Nada in MayChina · 83 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.0°C · 185 mm rain
- Wanning in MayChina · 93 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 26.1°C · 87 mm rain
- Basuo in MayChina · 95 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 26.2°C · 125 mm rain
- Qionghai in MayChina · 113 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 25.8°C · 149 mm rain
- Sandu in MayChina · 116 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 25.7°C · 108 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 Wuzhishan) is explained once on the Wuzhishan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.