Climate averages 1991–2020
Zunyi weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Zunyi: daytime highs average 23.3°C and nights cool to about 15.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 225 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 30 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Loushanguan (51 km away). In May its highs average 22.7°C, 0.6°C cooler than Zunyi, with 201 mm of rain.
Among the 884 cities listed in China, Zunyi ranks joint 688th of 884 for the warmest May highs and joint 760th of 884 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 884 cities is 25.2°C; Zunyi is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.6°C to 25.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 225 mm to 242 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
Zunyi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.3°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 68 | 15.1 | 10.611 h |
| February | 10.2°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 68 | 14.5 | 11.211 h |
| March | 14.5°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 113 | 19.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.7°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 159 | 19.5 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 23.3°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 225 | 20.3 | 13.514 h |
| June | 25.9°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 242 | 20.4 | 13.914 h |
| July | 28.3°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 185 | 17.5 | 13.714 h |
| August | 28.5°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 132 | 15.9 | 13.113 h |
| September | 24.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 118 | 13.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 18.9°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 145 | 17.3 | 11.512 h |
| November | 14.5°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 94 | 14.6 | 10.811 h |
| December | 9.2°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 61 | 13.8 | 10.410 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
- Loushanguan in MayChina · 51 kmHigh 22.7°C · Low 15.7°C · 201 mm rain
- Gulin in MayChina · 115 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 18.0°C · 162 mm rain
- Guiyang in MayChina · 124 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 191 mm rain
- Wansheng in MayChina · 142 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.9°C · 195 mm rain
- Gunan in MayChina · 151 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 18.2°C · 179 mm rain
- Xuyong in MayChina · 154 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.9°C · 163 mm rain
- Kaili in MayChina · 162 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 16.9°C · 208 mm rain
- Hejiang in MayChina · 163 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 18.5°C · 138 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 Zunyi) is explained once on the Zunyi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.