Climate averages 1991–2020
Yongzhou 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 Yongzhou: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 19.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 219 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 26 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Shaoyang (92 km away). In May its highs average 26.1°C, 0.9°C cooler than Yongzhou, with 226 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yongzhou ranks joint 228th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 749th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Yongzhou is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 219 mm to 257 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
Yongzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.8°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 80 | 12.6 | 10.711 h |
| February | 13.4°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 84 | 13.1 | 11.211 h |
| March | 17.3°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 145 | 18.6 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.2°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 171 | 17.4 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 27.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 219 | 16.7 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.6°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 257 | 16.8 | 13.814 h |
| July | 32.7°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 130 | 11.1 | 13.614 h |
| August | 32.5°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 144 | 13.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 29.0°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 72 | 9.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.3°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 76 | 8.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 18.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 81 | 9.1 | 10.911 h |
| December | 13.1°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 57 | 8.6 | 10.511 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
- Shaoyang in MayChina · 92 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.4°C · 226 mm rain
- Wugang in MayChina · 103 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.3°C · 230 mm rain
- Hengyang in MayChina · 113 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.5°C · 268 mm rain
- Gantang in MayChina · 118 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.3°C · 249 mm rain
- Leiyang in MayChina · 124 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.0°C · 240 mm rain
- Yongfeng in MayChina · 127 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 18.7°C · 252 mm rain
- Lengshuijiang in MayChina · 142 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 18.0°C · 211 mm rain
- Shangmei in MayChina · 150 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.1°C · 236 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 Yongzhou) is explained once on the Yongzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.