Climate averages 1991–2020

Banqiao weather
in May.

A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 27.2°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 21.2°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 200 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Banqiao · average highYear overview

May is a warm month in Banqiao: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 21.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 200 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 21 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Shulin (5 km away). In May its highs average 27.0°C, about as warm as Banqiao, with 200 mm of rain.

Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Banqiao ranks joint 15th of 28 for the warmest May highs and joint 12th of 28 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 28 cities is 27.5°C; Banqiao is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 200 mm to 241 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 3500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Banqiao climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Banqiao, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 17.4°C12.4°C12.4°C8714.210.811 h
February 18.3°C12.6°C12.6°C9512.011.311 h
March 20.8°C14.3°C14.3°C10513.912.012 h
April 24.3°C17.6°C17.6°C13216.312.713 h
May, selected 27.2°C21.2°C21.2°C20019.813.313 h
June 29.6°C24.2°C24.2°C24120.813.714 h
July 31.2°C25.4°C25.4°C22619.113.514 h
August 30.5°C25.2°C25.2°C30220.713.013 h
September 28.5°C23.5°C23.5°C25816.912.312 h
October 25.2°C20.8°C20.8°C21316.511.612 h
November 22.5°C17.9°C17.9°C13715.510.911 h
December 18.9°C14.3°C14.3°C10815.010.611 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

Distance from Banqiao

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Banqiao) is explained once on the Banqiao year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Taipei, Neihu and Shulin lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.