Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhangjiajie weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Zhangjiajie: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 18.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 247 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 35 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jishou (116 km away). In May its highs average 25.3°C, about as warm as Zhangjiajie, with 326 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhangjiajie ranks joint 483rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and 800th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Zhangjiajie is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 247 mm to 293 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
Zhangjiajie climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.8°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 71 | 10.4 | 10.511 h |
| February | 11.3°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 96 | 11.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 15.8°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 150 | 15.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 21.5°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 220 | 16.2 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 25.7°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 247 | 16.5 | 13.614 h |
| June | 28.7°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 293 | 18.2 | 14.014 h |
| July | 31.1°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 317 | 19.9 | 13.814 h |
| August | 31.0°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 165 | 16.9 | 13.213 h |
| September | 27.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 111 | 11.3 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.9°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 115 | 11.4 | 11.511 h |
| November | 16.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 92 | 10.4 | 10.711 h |
| December | 11.1°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 46 | 8.3 | 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
- Jishou in MayChina · 116 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 17.7°C · 326 mm rain
- Changde in MayChina · 119 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.3°C · 181 mm rain
- Jinshi in MayChina · 145 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.2°C · 185 mm rain
- Fenghuang in MayChina · 158 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 16.4°C · 277 mm rain
- Enshi in MayChina · 162 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 17.1°C · 196 mm rain
- Zhicheng in MayChina · 163 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.9°C · 171 mm rain
- Zhonghe in MayChina · 164 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 17.5°C · 241 mm rain
- Zhongduo in MayChina · 170 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 16.8°C · 249 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 Zhangjiajie) is explained once on the Zhangjiajie year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.