Climate averages 1991–2020
Yuxi weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Yuxi: daytime highs average 26.3°C and nights cool to about 16.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 18 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Haikou, China (47 km away). In May its highs average 24.2°C, 2.1°C cooler than Yuxi, with 107 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Yuxi ranks joint 380th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 465th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Yuxi is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 25.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 97 mm to 159 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
Yuxi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.6°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 30 | 4.9 | 10.811 h |
| February | 19.5°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 22 | 4.0 | 11.311 h |
| March | 23.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 30 | 5.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 50 | 8.3 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 26.3°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 97 | 13.3 | 13.313 h |
| June | 25.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 159 | 20.0 | 13.614 h |
| July | 24.8°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 218 | 25.1 | 13.513 h |
| August | 24.8°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 197 | 24.3 | 13.013 h |
| September | 23.5°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 125 | 19.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 21.3°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 79 | 13.7 | 11.612 h |
| November | 18.8°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 33 | 6.0 | 11.011 h |
| December | 16.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 20 | 3.8 | 10.711 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
- Haikou, China in MayChina · 47 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Longquan in MayChina · 52 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 89 mm rain
- Anning in MayChina · 63 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 15.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Majie in MayChina · 76 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.2°C · 139 mm rain
- Kunming in MayChina · 78 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 15.3°C · 139 mm rain
- Miyang in MayChina · 91 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 17.4°C · 86 mm rain
- Kaiyuan (Yunnan), China in MayChina · 106 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 18.2°C · 76 mm rain
- Zhongshu in MayChina · 125 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.7°C · 112 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 Yuxi) is explained once on the Yuxi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.