Climate averages 1991–2020
Hsinchu weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Hsinchu: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 142 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Toufen (14 km away). In May its highs average 27.0°C, about as warm as Hsinchu, with 142 mm of rain.
Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Hsinchu ranks 22nd of 28 for the warmest May highs and joint 4th of 28 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 28 cities is 27.5°C; Hsinchu is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 142 mm to 160 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
Hsinchu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.5°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 60 | 9.8 | 10.811 h |
| February | 18.1°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 74 | 9.2 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.5°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 93 | 11.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.0°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 98 | 11.0 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 26.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 142 | 13.3 | 13.313 h |
| June | 28.9°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 160 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| July | 30.0°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 202 | 14.9 | 13.514 h |
| August | 29.4°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 307 | 19.5 | 13.013 h |
| September | 28.1°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 197 | 14.8 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.5°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 88 | 6.6 | 11.612 h |
| November | 23.0°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 48 | 6.2 | 11.011 h |
| December | 19.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 51 | 7.8 | 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
- Toufen in MayTaiwan · 14 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 22.5°C · 142 mm rain
- Zhudong in MayTaiwan · 15 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 21.4°C · 142 mm rain
- Miaoli in MayTaiwan · 30 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 22.4°C · 211 mm rain
- Bade in MayTaiwan · 35 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 20.9°C · 140 mm rain
- Taoyuan in MayTaiwan · 39 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 21.2°C · 140 mm rain
- Sanxia in MayTaiwan · 43 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 21.6°C · 140 mm rain
- Shulin in MayTaiwan · 50 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 21.1°C · 200 mm rain
- Banqiao in MayTaiwan · 55 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 21.2°C · 200 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 Hsinchu) is explained once on the Hsinchu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Toufen and Zhudong lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.