Climate averages 1991–2020
Xinqiao weather
in May.
A warm, 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 Xinqiao: daytime highs average 24.9°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 139 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Minhang (8 km away). In May its highs average 24.4°C, about as warm as Xinqiao, with 139 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xinqiao ranks joint 578th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 566th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Xinqiao is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 27.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 139 mm to 284 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
Xinqiao climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 66 | 8.8 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.7°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 65 | 9.2 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.7°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 102 | 11.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 20.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 113 | 10.4 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.9°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 139 | 10.7 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.7°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 284 | 15.5 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.6°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 160 | 13.8 | 14.014 h |
| August | 31.3°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 168 | 15.5 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.3°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 106 | 10.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.8°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 58 | 6.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 57 | 7.4 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.3°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 47 | 6.6 | 10.210 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
- Minhang in MayChina · 8 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 139 mm rain
- Songjiang in MayChina · 9 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.5°C · 139 mm rain
- Xuhui in MayChina · 20 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.3°C · 126 mm rain
- Xiayang in MayChina · 21 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.4°C · 131 mm rain
- Qingpu in MayChina · 21 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.3°C · 131 mm rain
- Nanqiao in MayChina · 21 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.9°C · 133 mm rain
- Putuo in MayChina · 22 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.4°C · 126 mm rain
- Shanghai in MayChina · 23 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.4°C · 126 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 Xinqiao) is explained once on the Xinqiao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Minhang, Songjiang and Zhujing lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.