Climate averages 1991–2020
Coimbatore weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 3rd 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 Coimbatore: daytime highs average 33.2°C and nights cool to about 23.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 37 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Idaiyarpālaiyam (6 km away). In May its highs average 32.2°C, 1.0°C cooler than Coimbatore, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Coimbatore ranks joint 608th of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 546th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Coimbatore is 4.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 3.8°C to 29.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 70 mm to 101 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
Coimbatore climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.3°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 8.4 | 2.2 | 11.612 h |
| February | 31.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 12 | 2.4 | 11.812 h |
| March | 34.6°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 21 | 4.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 35.1°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 40 | 9.3 | 12.412 h |
| May, selected | 33.2°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 70 | 14.9 | 12.613 h |
| June | 29.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 101 | 14.8 | 12.813 h |
| July | 28.3°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 106 | 15.3 | 12.713 h |
| August | 28.5°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 97 | 15.1 | 12.512 h |
| September | 29.4°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 84 | 16.0 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.8°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 167 | 21.3 | 11.912 h |
| November | 27.6°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 132 | 15.9 | 11.612 h |
| December | 27.4°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 50 | 7.2 | 11.511 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
- Idaiyarpālaiyam in MayIndia · 6 kmHigh 32.2°C · Low 23.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Pollachi in MayIndia · 39 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 67 mm rain
- Velampālaiyam in MayIndia · 40 kmHigh 34.9°C · Low 24.9°C · 70 mm rain
- Palakkad in MayIndia · 43 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 24.9°C · 81 mm rain
- Tiruppur in MayIndia · 44 kmHigh 35.5°C · Low 25.3°C · 71 mm rain
- Ooty in MayIndia · 54 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 14.5°C · 161 mm rain
- Dharapuram in MayIndia · 69 kmHigh 34.9°C · Low 24.8°C · 50 mm rain
- Valparai in MayIndia · 75 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 19.7°C · 372 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 Coimbatore) is explained once on the Coimbatore year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Idaiyarpālaiyam lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.