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Hangzhou in May
sweet spot · the best month to go
The year in Hangzhou
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- JanJHangzhou in January: ok
- FebFHangzhou in February: ok
- MarMHangzhou in March: sweet spot
- AprAHangzhou in April: sweet spot
- MayMHangzhou in May: sweet spot
- JunJHangzhou in June: ok
- JulJHangzhou in July: avoid
- AugAHangzhou in August: avoid
- SepSHangzhou in September: ok, busy
- OctOHangzhou in October: sweet spot, busy
- NovNHangzhou in November: ok, busy
- DecDHangzhou in December: ok
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 27°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 18°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 29°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 9 · 153 mm |
| Humidity | 74% |
| Sunshine | 7.8 h/day |
| Daylight | 13.7 h/day |
| Days over 35°C | 0 |
| Crowds | 75 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at the centre, by West Lake, 25 km from the airport (HGH): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in May
- Labor Day 1 May 2027
- Labor Day (observed) 3 May 2027
- Dragon Boat Festival 28 May 2028
- Dragon Boat Festival (observed) 29 May 2028
Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Hangzhou in pictures
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Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 27°C.
- A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type A and C and I plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Renminbi. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Hangzhou: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
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