Climate averages 1991–2020
Maţāy weather
in May.
A very hot, very dry month: the 5th warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Maţāy: daytime highs average 34.1°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Rain is very rare: less than 1 mm falls in a typical May (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 33 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Banī Mazār (9 km away). In May its highs average 34.3°C, about as warm as Maţāy, with almost no rain (under 1 mm).
Among the 107 cities listed in Egypt, Maţāy ranks joint 32nd of 107 for the warmest May highs and joint 1st of 107 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 107 cities is 33.1°C; Maţāy is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 36.7°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
Maţāy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19.2°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 1.4 | 0.4 | 10.611 h |
| February | 21.1°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 1.2 | 0.3 | 11.211 h |
| March | 25.1°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 2.2 | 0.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 29.9°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 34.1°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 0.1 | 0.1 | 13.514 h |
| June | 36.7°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.914 h |
| July | 37.4°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.814 h |
| August | 37.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 0 | 0.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 35.1°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 0 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 31.2°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 11.512 h |
| November | 25.5°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 0.7 | 0.1 | 10.811 h |
| December | 20.7°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 10.410 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
- Banī Mazār in MayEgypt · 9 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 19.4°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Samālūţ in MayEgypt · 14 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 19.4°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Maghāghah in MayEgypt · 26 kmHigh 34.1°C · Low 19.3°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Minya in MayEgypt · 36 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 19.6°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Al Fashn in MayEgypt · 46 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 19.0°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Abū Qurqāş in MayEgypt · 55 kmHigh 34.9°C · Low 20.0°C · 0.1 mm rain
- Bibā in MayEgypt · 60 kmHigh 34.2°C · Low 18.8°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Mallawī in MayEgypt · 77 kmHigh 35.2°C · Low 20.2°C · 0.1 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 Maţāy) is explained once on the Maţāy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Banī Mazār lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.