Climate averages 1991–2020
Gardez weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Gardez: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 11.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 53 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Khōst (71 km away). In May its highs average 28.9°C, 6.5°C warmer than Gardez, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Gardez ranks 14th of 14 for the warmest May highs and joint 11th of 14 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 14 cities is 28.1°C; Gardez is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.4°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 45 mm to 41 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Gardez climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.2°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 42 | 6.4 | 10.210 h |
| February | 0.8°C-6.5°C | -6.5°C | 63 | 8.8 | 11.011 h |
| March | 7.3°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 72 | 9.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 16.3°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 69 | 10.7 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 22.4°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 45 | 8.9 | 13.914 h |
| June | 26.8°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 41 | 7.7 | 14.314 h |
| July | 28.7°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 54 | 11.5 | 14.114 h |
| August | 27.8°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 47 | 11.8 | 13.413 h |
| September | 24.5°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 18 | 5.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 18.5°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 10 | 2.3 | 11.411 h |
| November | 11.4°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 20 | 3.5 | 10.510 h |
| December | 5.3°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 23 | 4.1 | 10.010 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Khōst in MayAfghanistan · 71 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 14.2°C · 41 mm rain
- Ghazni in MayAfghanistan · 75 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 7.2°C · 19 mm rain
- Kabul in MayAfghanistan · 104 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 11.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Bannu in MayPakistan · 145 kmHigh 36.4°C · Low 22.1°C · 23 mm rain
- Jalālābād in MayAfghanistan · 146 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 21.6°C · 7.3 mm rain
- Bagrām in MayAfghanistan · 152 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 9.7°C · 19 mm rain
- Kohat in MayPakistan · 206 kmHigh 34.8°C · Low 19.9°C · 23 mm rain
- Peshawar in MayPakistan · 222 kmHigh 35.7°C · Low 20.5°C · 32 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 Gardez) is explained once on the Gardez year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.