Climate averages 1991–2020
Zhaodong weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Zhaodong: daytime highs average 20.7°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 56 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lanxi (Heilongjiang), China (34 km away). In May its highs average 20.5°C, about as warm as Zhaodong, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zhaodong ranks joint 783rd of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 186th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Zhaodong is 4.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.2°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 55 mm to 93 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Zhaodong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -12.8°C-22.8°C | -22.8°C | 3.1 | 0.8 | 9.19 h |
| February | -6.6°C-18.1°C | -18.1°C | 4.2 | 1.3 | 10.310 h |
| March | 3.1°C-8.4°C | -8.4°C | 12 | 3.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.2°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 26 | 4.8 | 13.514 h |
| May, selected | 20.7°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 55 | 8.2 | 14.915 h |
| June | 26.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 93 | 11.9 | 15.716 h |
| July | 27.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 133 | 13.7 | 15.415 h |
| August | 25.8°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 120 | 12.0 | 14.214 h |
| September | 20.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 61 | 8.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 11.7°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 34 | 6.1 | 11.011 h |
| November | -0.4°C-8.5°C | -8.5°C | 13 | 3.0 | 9.510 h |
| December | -10.7°C-19.5°C | -19.5°C | 6.6 | 2.1 | 8.79 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Lanxi (Heilongjiang), China in MayChina · 34 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 8.1°C · 55 mm rain
- Hulan in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 8.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Harbin in MayChina · 63 kmHigh 20.5°C · Low 8.2°C · 65 mm rain
- Zhaozhou in MayChina · 66 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Anda in MayChina · 67 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 8.2°C · 41 mm rain
- Shuangcheng in MayChina · 80 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 8.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Longfeng in MayChina · 84 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 8.1°C · 40 mm rain
- Zhaoyuan (Heilongjiang), China in MayChina · 90 kmHigh 21.3°C · Low 8.8°C · 53 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 Zhaodong) is explained once on the Zhaodong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.