Climate averages 1991–2020
Zaoyang weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Zaoyang: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 17.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 100 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 47 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiangyang (58 km away). In May its highs average 27.1°C, about as warm as Zaoyang, with 97 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zaoyang ranks joint 259th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 475th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Zaoyang is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 30.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 100 mm to 146 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
Zaoyang climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.4°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 19 | 3.9 | 10.310 h |
| February | 11.4°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 27 | 5.1 | 11.011 h |
| March | 16.2°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 47 | 6.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 66 | 8.1 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 26.8°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 100 | 9.5 | 13.814 h |
| June | 30.1°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 146 | 9.5 | 14.214 h |
| July | 31.3°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 203 | 14.3 | 14.014 h |
| August | 30.5°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 163 | 13.2 | 13.313 h |
| September | 26.9°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 82 | 8.9 | 12.412 h |
| October | 22.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 61 | 6.6 | 11.411 h |
| November | 16.1°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 39 | 6.1 | 10.511 h |
| December | 10.3°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 17 | 3.5 | 10.110 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
- Xiangyang in MayChina · 58 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 16.9°C · 97 mm rain
- Tanghe in MayChina · 63 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 16.7°C · 89 mm rain
- Suizhou in MayChina · 74 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.7°C · 126 mm rain
- Xihe in MayChina · 83 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 16.8°C · 126 mm rain
- Dengzhou in MayChina · 88 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 16.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Nanzhang Chengguanzhen in MayChina · 95 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 16.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Nanyang in MayChina · 100 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 16.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Laohekou in MayChina · 106 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 16.9°C · 81 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 Zaoyang) is explained once on the Zaoyang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.