Climate averages 1991–2020
Xuhui 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 Xuhui: daytime highs average 24.3°C and nights cool to about 16.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 126 mm of rain on roughly 10 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 Shanghai (3 km away). In May its highs average 23.9°C, about as warm as Xuhui, with 126 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Xuhui ranks joint 628th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 537th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Xuhui is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 126 mm to 270 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
Xuhui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.5°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 63 | 8.4 | 10.410 h |
| February | 10.2°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 62 | 8.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 14.1°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 96 | 11.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.5°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 104 | 10.2 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 24.3°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 126 | 10.0 | 13.714 h |
| June | 27.2°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 270 | 14.4 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.2°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 157 | 13.9 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.9°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 154 | 14.8 | 13.313 h |
| September | 27.0°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 106 | 10.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 61 | 6.0 | 11.411 h |
| November | 17.2°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 56 | 7.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 11.0°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 45 | 6.7 | 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
- Shanghai in MayChina · 3 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.4°C · 126 mm rain
- Putuo in MayChina · 8 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.4°C · 126 mm rain
- Yangpu in MayChina · 10 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.5°C · 126 mm rain
- Minhang in MayChina · 12 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 139 mm rain
- Yanghang in MayChina · 19 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 16.6°C · 126 mm rain
- Xinqiao in MayChina · 20 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Baoshan in MayChina · 24 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.5°C · 119 mm rain
- Luodian in MayChina · 27 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 16.5°C · 123 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 Xuhui) is explained once on the Xuhui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Shanghai, Putuo and Yangpu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.