Climate averages 1991–2020

Nantou, Taiwan 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.

Average high 26.6°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 19.8°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 165 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Nantou · average highYear overview

May is a warm month in Nantou, Taiwan: daytime highs average 26.6°C and nights cool to about 19.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 165 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Caotun (7 km away). In May its highs average 27.4°C, 0.9°C warmer than Nantou, Taiwan, with 165 mm of rain.

Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Nantou, Taiwan ranks joint 25th of 28 for the warmest May highs and joint 9th of 28 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 28 cities is 27.5°C; Nantou, Taiwan is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 165 mm to 215 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. 5101520253035 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 4000

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

Every month, side by side

Nantou, Taiwan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Nantou, Taiwan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 19.1°C12.0°C12.0°C599.810.811 h
February 20.0°C12.7°C12.7°C7510.711.311 h
March 22.2°C14.8°C14.8°C9912.412.012 h
April 24.6°C17.5°C17.5°C11513.512.713 h
May, selected 26.6°C19.8°C19.8°C16517.313.313 h
June 27.6°C21.0°C21.0°C21519.713.614 h
July 28.1°C21.7°C21.7°C30922.413.513 h
August 27.5°C21.8°C21.8°C38425.813.013 h
September 27.1°C21.2°C21.2°C23021.312.312 h
October 25.8°C19.6°C19.6°C9211.111.612 h
November 23.9°C16.9°C16.9°C467.111.011 h
December 20.5°C13.5°C13.5°C568.310.711 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 Nantou

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 Nantou) is explained once on the Nantou, Taiwan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Caotun lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.