Climate averages 1991–2020
Yantai weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Yantai: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 13.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 10 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zhuangyuan (57 km away). In May its highs average 24.1°C, 1.7°C warmer than Yantai, with 58 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yantai ranks joint 726th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 280th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Yantai is 2.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.3°C to 26.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 73 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
Yantai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.1°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 13 | 3.2 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.3°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 17 | 2.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 9.6°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 21 | 3.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.5°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 40 | 4.6 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 22.4°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 63 | 5.9 | 14.214 h |
| June | 26.7°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 73 | 6.2 | 14.715 h |
| July | 28.8°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 161 | 10.7 | 14.514 h |
| August | 28.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 133 | 10.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.6°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 56 | 5.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.8°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 34 | 4.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 11.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 37 | 5.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 4.6°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 22 | 5.2 | 9.610 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
- Zhuangyuan in MayChina · 57 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 13.0°C · 58 mm rain
- Tianfu in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 12.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Weihai in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 13.2°C · 68 mm rain
- Dengzhou, China in MayChina · 70 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 13.6°C · 57 mm rain
- Dongcun in MayChina · 82 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 13.3°C · 70 mm rain
- Laiyang in MayChina · 85 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 12.7°C · 57 mm rain
- Zhaoyuan (Shandong), China in MayChina · 92 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 13.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Yatou in MayChina · 95 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 12.8°C · 65 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 Yantai) is explained once on the Yantai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.