Climate averages 1991–2020
Tuggeranong weather
in May.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 9th warmest and one of the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a cool month in Tuggeranong: daytime highs average 14.2°C and nights cool to about 4.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 17 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Canberra (16 km away). In May its highs average 14.3°C, about as warm as Tuggeranong, with 28 mm of rain.
Among the 32 cities listed in Australia, Tuggeranong ranks 28th of 32 for the warmest May highs and 6th of 32 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 32 cities is 19.5°C; Tuggeranong is 5.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 3.5°C to 10.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 34 mm to 58 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
Tuggeranong climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.7°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 72 | 9.8 | 14.214 h |
| February | 25.2°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 78 | 9.5 | 13.413 h |
| March | 22.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 55 | 7.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 18.5°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 34 | 5.1 | 11.211 h |
| May, selected | 14.2°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 34 | 5.0 | 10.310 h |
| June | 10.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 58 | 7.2 | 9.810 h |
| July | 10.0°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 44 | 7.6 | 10.010 h |
| August | 11.4°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 57 | 8.4 | 10.811 h |
| September | 14.9°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 67 | 8.8 | 11.812 h |
| October | 18.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 75 | 9.4 | 13.013 h |
| November | 21.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 84 | 10.4 | 14.014 h |
| December | 24.3°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 81 | 9.6 | 14.514 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
- Canberra in MayAustralia · 16 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 4.3°C · 28 mm rain
- Wollongong in MayAustralia · 200 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 13.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Blue Mountains in MayAustralia · 222 kmHigh 13.3°C · Low 4.6°C · 48 mm rain
- Sydney in MayAustralia · 261 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 12.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Central Coast in MayAustralia · 306 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 13.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Newcastle, Australia in MayAustralia · 372 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 13.8°C · 94 mm rain
- Maitland in MayAustralia · 376 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 11.3°C · 47 mm rain
- Melbourne in MayAustralia · 453 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 9.1°C · 43 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 Tuggeranong) is explained once on the Tuggeranong year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.