Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhangzhou weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Zhangzhou: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 20.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 189 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Xiamen (43 km away). In May its highs average 26.8°C, 1.3°C cooler than Zhangzhou, with 184 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhangzhou ranks joint 107th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 686th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Zhangzhou is 2.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 189 mm to 253 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
Zhangzhou climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.4°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 35 | 5.1 | 10.811 h |
| February | 19.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 52 | 8.1 | 11.311 h |
| March | 21.9°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 80 | 10.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 25.6°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 103 | 12.9 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 28.2°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 189 | 16.7 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.9°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 253 | 19.9 | 13.614 h |
| July | 31.8°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 200 | 18.1 | 13.513 h |
| August | 31.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 263 | 20.8 | 13.013 h |
| September | 30.1°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 142 | 13.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.2°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 43 | 4.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 24.6°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 47 | 4.6 | 11.011 h |
| December | 20.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 39 | 4.9 | 10.611 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
- Xiamen in MayChina · 43 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 21.0°C · 184 mm rain
- Longyan in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.2°C · 246 mm rain
- Ximeicun in MayChina · 91 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.3°C · 172 mm rain
- Jinjiang in MayChina · 99 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 20.8°C · 156 mm rain
- Quanzhou in MayChina · 104 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 20.6°C · 172 mm rain
- Huanggang (Guangdong), China in MayChina · 114 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 21.8°C · 194 mm rain
- Chaozhou in MayChina · 142 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 220 mm rain
- Chenghua in MayChina · 148 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 22.3°C · 191 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 Zhangzhou) is explained once on the Zhangzhou year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.