Climate averages 1991–2020
Yichun weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Yichun: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 308 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xinyu (53 km away). In May its highs average 27.1°C, about as warm as Yichun, with 283 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yichun ranks joint 259th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 867th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Yichun is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 308 mm to 372 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
Yichun climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.9°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 75 | 10.8 | 10.611 h |
| February | 12.7°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 94 | 12.0 | 11.211 h |
| March | 16.6°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 210 | 18.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 276 | 18.5 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 26.8°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 308 | 18.6 | 13.514 h |
| June | 29.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 372 | 20.5 | 13.914 h |
| July | 32.8°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 210 | 16.4 | 13.714 h |
| August | 32.3°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 182 | 17.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 28.7°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 106 | 11.6 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.0°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 65 | 7.5 | 11.512 h |
| November | 18.0°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 89 | 9.1 | 10.811 h |
| December | 12.2°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 60 | 7.9 | 10.410 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
- Xinyu in MayChina · 53 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.5°C · 283 mm rain
- Pingxiang in MayChina · 59 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 18.7°C · 297 mm rain
- Guankou in MayChina · 84 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.9°C · 308 mm rain
- Xishan in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.0°C · 298 mm rain
- Ji’an in MayChina · 98 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.1°C · 235 mm rain
- Dunhou in MayChina · 100 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.1°C · 235 mm rain
- Zhuzhou in MayChina · 123 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 19.1°C · 291 mm rain
- Changsha in MayChina · 146 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.7°C · 275 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 Yichun) is explained once on the Yichun year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.