Climate averages 1991–2020
Kunduz weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Kunduz: daytime highs average 30.1°C and nights cool to about 15.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 06 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Khanabad (23 km away). In May its highs average 28.9°C, 1.2°C cooler than Kunduz, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 14 cities listed in Afghanistan, Kunduz ranks 5th 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; Kunduz is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 6.8°C to 36.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 45 mm to 4.4 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
Kunduz climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.7°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 44 | 8.1 | 10.010 h |
| February | 11.0°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 59 | 9.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 76 | 10.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.8°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 76 | 10.1 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 30.1°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 45 | 6.2 | 14.114 h |
| June | 36.9°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 4.4 | 1.2 | 14.615 h |
| July | 39.6°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 1.0 | 0.1 | 14.414 h |
| August | 38.0°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 0.2 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 32.8°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 2.6 | 0.6 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 12 | 2.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.1°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 42 | 6.5 | 10.210 h |
| December | 10.3°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 37 | 6.6 | 9.710 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
- Khanabad in MayAfghanistan · 23 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 15.2°C · 42 mm rain
- Baghlān in MayAfghanistan · 68 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 13.7°C · 63 mm rain
- Bokhtar in MayTajikistan · 123 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 34 mm rain
- Tirmiz in MayUzbekistan · 151 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 19.2°C · 15 mm rain
- Kŭlob in MayTajikistan · 155 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 13.2°C · 99 mm rain
- Mazār-e Sharīf in MayAfghanistan · 156 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 16.8°C · 13 mm rain
- Balkh in MayAfghanistan · 175 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 16.4°C · 13 mm rain
- Denov in MayUzbekistan · 191 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 12.7°C · 30 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 Kunduz) is explained once on the Kunduz year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.