Climate averages 1991–2020
Yiwu weather
in May.
A warm, 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 Yiwu: daytime highs average 26.3°C and nights cool to about 17.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 173 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 36 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dongyang (15 km away). In May its highs average 26.3°C, about as warm as Yiwu, with 162 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yiwu ranks joint 380th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 649th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Yiwu is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 173 mm to 303 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
Yiwu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.6°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 74 | 10.4 | 10.510 h |
| February | 12.1°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 72 | 10.8 | 11.111 h |
| March | 16.1°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 127 | 14.2 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.9°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 147 | 14.0 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 26.3°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 173 | 14.5 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.6°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 303 | 17.7 | 14.014 h |
| July | 33.1°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 146 | 12.8 | 13.814 h |
| August | 32.8°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 138 | 14.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 28.5°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 93 | 9.8 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.7°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 54 | 6.6 | 11.511 h |
| November | 18.1°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 73 | 8.4 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.9°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 61 | 8.0 | 10.310 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
- Dongyang in MayChina · 15 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.2°C · 162 mm rain
- Puyang in MayChina · 24 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.1°C · 184 mm rain
- Zhuji in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 165 mm rain
- Jinhua in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 209 mm rain
- Guli in MayChina · 48 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.3°C · 188 mm rain
- Lanxi (Zhejiang), China in MayChina · 60 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 180 mm rain
- Fuyang, China in MayChina · 83 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 17.3°C · 182 mm rain
- Shaoxing in MayChina · 91 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 17.0°C · 171 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 Yiwu) is explained once on the Yiwu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.