Climate averages 1991–2020
Xiamen weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 6th 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 Xiamen: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 21.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 184 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhangzhou (43 km away). In May its highs average 28.2°C, 1.3°C warmer than Xiamen, with 189 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xiamen ranks joint 259th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 675th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Xiamen is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 184 mm to 245 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
Xiamen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.2°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 40 | 5.6 | 10.811 h |
| February | 17.8°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 61 | 8.8 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.2°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 89 | 11.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.9°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 108 | 12.8 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 26.8°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 184 | 16.1 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.0°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 245 | 19.6 | 13.614 h |
| July | 30.9°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 188 | 17.0 | 13.513 h |
| August | 30.6°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 251 | 19.7 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.7°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 131 | 12.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.6°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 44 | 3.8 | 11.612 h |
| November | 23.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 49 | 4.7 | 11.011 h |
| December | 19.1°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 42 | 5.0 | 10.711 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
- Zhangzhou in MayChina · 43 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 20.9°C · 189 mm rain
- Jinjiang in MayChina · 62 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 20.8°C · 156 mm rain
- Ximeicun in MayChina · 64 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.3°C · 172 mm rain
- Quanzhou in MayChina · 70 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.6°C · 172 mm rain
- Longyan in MayChina · 126 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.2°C · 246 mm rain
- Huanggang (Guangdong), China in MayChina · 142 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 21.8°C · 194 mm rain
- Putian in MayChina · 142 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 20.2°C · 191 mm rain
- Chaozhou in MayChina · 174 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 220 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 Xiamen) is explained once on the Xiamen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.