Climate averages 1991–2020
Manama weather
in May.
A hot, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Manama: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 26.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical May (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 25 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Al Muharraq (4 km away). In May its highs average 31.1°C, about as warm as Manama, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 4 cities listed in Bahrain, Manama ranks 2nd of 4 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 4 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 4 cities is 30.7°C; Manama is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 34.2°C, and monthly rainfall stays under 1 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
Manama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.6°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 15 | 3.0 | 10.711 h |
| February | 19.4°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 9.6 | 1.9 | 11.311 h |
| March | 22.2°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 10 | 1.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 31.0°C26.7°C | 26.7°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| June | 34.2°C29.5°C | 29.5°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.814 h |
| July | 35.6°C31.0°C | 31.0°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.614 h |
| August | 35.9°C31.2°C | 31.2°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 34.4°C29.5°C | 29.5°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 31.2°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 25.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 12 | 1.6 | 10.911 h |
| December | 21.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 15 | 2.3 | 10.511 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
- Al Muharraq in MayBahrain · 4 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 26.7°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Ar Rifā‘ in MayBahrain · 11 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 26.6°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Madīnat Ḩamad in MayBahrain · 15 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 26.7°C · 0.4 mm rain
- Khobar in MaySaudi Arabia · 38 kmHigh 36.6°C · Low 25.2°C · 0.6 mm rain
- Dammam in MaySaudi Arabia · 53 kmHigh 35.3°C · Low 25.3°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Al Qaţīf in MaySaudi Arabia · 69 kmHigh 35.3°C · Low 25.3°C · 0.7 mm rain
- Lusail in MayQatar · 129 kmHigh 36.2°C · Low 25.8°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Al Jubayl in MaySaudi Arabia · 130 kmHigh 36.8°C · Low 25.2°C · 1.0 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 Manama) is explained once on the Manama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Al Muharraq and Ar Rifā‘ lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; some of these places also share the 0.1° temperature cell; for those places, any temperature difference comes only from the elevation adjustment.