Climate averages 1991–2020
Bangui weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Bangui: daytime highs average 31.2°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bégoua (11 km away). In May its highs average 30.9°C, about as warm as Bangui, with 123 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in the Central African Republic, Bangui ranks 1st of 7 for the warmest May highs and joint 1st of 7 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 7 cities is 30.0°C; Bangui is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.8°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 104 mm to 86 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
Bangui climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34.6°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 11 | 2.1 | 11.912 h |
| February | 35.0°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 25 | 4.8 | 12.012 h |
| March | 33.2°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 88 | 13.0 | 12.112 h |
| April | 31.9°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 111 | 15.6 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 31.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 104 | 16.8 | 12.312 h |
| June | 30.4°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 86 | 15.6 | 12.412 h |
| July | 29.6°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 109 | 19.5 | 12.312 h |
| August | 29.1°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 157 | 23.6 | 12.312 h |
| September | 29.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 158 | 23.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 29.5°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 189 | 25.1 | 12.012 h |
| November | 30.5°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 103 | 15.6 | 11.912 h |
| December | 32.6°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 16 | 3.4 | 11.912 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
- Bégoua in MayCentral African Republic · 11 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 23.5°C · 123 mm rain
- Bimbo in MayCentral African Republic · 19 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.4°C · 104 mm rain
- Gemena in MayDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 183 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 114 mm rain
- Gbadolite in MayDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 272 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 23.2°C · 138 mm rain
- Bambari in MayCentral African Republic · 282 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 23.0°C · 148 mm rain
- Carnot in MayCentral African Republic · 304 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 21.7°C · 162 mm rain
- Berbérati in MayCentral African Republic · 307 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.3°C · 153 mm rain
- Binga in MayDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 309 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.9°C · 116 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 Bangui) is explained once on the Bangui year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Bimbo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.