Climate averages 1991–2020
Bohicon weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Bohicon: daytime highs average 31.4°C and nights cool to about 24.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 132 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 27 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Abomey (8 km away). In May its highs average 31.1°C, about as warm as Bohicon, with 132 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Benin, Bohicon ranks 3rd of 8 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 8 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 8 cities is 30.6°C; Bohicon is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 132 mm to 153 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
Bohicon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34.7°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 9.8 | 2.8 | 11.812 h |
| February | 35.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 24 | 5.7 | 11.912 h |
| March | 34.6°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 55 | 12.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 33.2°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 89 | 16.6 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 31.4°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 132 | 21.9 | 12.412 h |
| June | 29.4°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 153 | 24.2 | 12.513 h |
| July | 28.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 142 | 23.9 | 12.512 h |
| August | 28.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 152 | 21.9 | 12.412 h |
| September | 28.9°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 160 | 23.6 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.8°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 105 | 19.1 | 12.012 h |
| November | 31.6°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 26 | 7.5 | 11.812 h |
| December | 33.7°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 9.3 | 2.3 | 11.712 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
- Abomey in MayBenin · 8 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.7°C · 132 mm rain
- Godomè in MayBenin · 93 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 25.7°C · 166 mm rain
- Porto-Novo in MayBenin · 96 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 25.2°C · 171 mm rain
- Cotonou in MayBenin · 98 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 25.9°C · 164 mm rain
- Ekpé in MayBenin · 102 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 171 mm rain
- Atakpamé in MayTogo · 110 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 22.8°C · 118 mm rain
- Ifo in MayNigeria · 131 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 218 mm rain
- Igbo-Ora in MayNigeria · 138 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 23.8°C · 140 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 Bohicon) is explained once on the Bohicon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Abomey lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.