Climate averages 1991–2020
Darbhanga weather
in May.
A very hot, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Darbhanga: daytime highs average 36.1°C and nights cool to about 25.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 79 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th 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 Benipur (27 km away). In May its highs average 36.0°C, about as warm as Darbhanga, with 82 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Darbhanga ranks joint 500th of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 568th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Darbhanga is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 34.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 79 mm to 211 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
Darbhanga climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.1°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 13 | 1.8 | 10.711 h |
| February | 25.9°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 15 | 2.1 | 11.311 h |
| March | 32.0°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 16 | 2.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 36.1°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 26 | 4.6 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 36.1°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 79 | 10.2 | 13.413 h |
| June | 34.0°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 211 | 19.4 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.6°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 354 | 27.8 | 13.614 h |
| August | 31.5°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 306 | 27.6 | 13.113 h |
| September | 30.8°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 249 | 22.6 | 12.312 h |
| October | 30.1°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 63 | 6.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 27.8°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 3.4 | 0.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 24.0°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 5.6 | 0.7 | 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
- Benipur in MayIndia · 27 kmHigh 36.0°C · Low 25.2°C · 82 mm rain
- Madhubani in MayIndia · 28 kmHigh 35.4°C · Low 25.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Muzaffarpur in MayIndia · 51 kmHigh 36.9°C · Low 25.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Janakpur in MayNepal · 64 kmHigh 35.2°C · Low 25.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Bāruni in MayIndia · 76 kmHigh 37.0°C · Low 25.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Saharsa in MayIndia · 76 kmHigh 35.2°C · Low 24.9°C · 82 mm rain
- Begusarai in MayIndia · 85 kmHigh 37.1°C · Low 25.8°C · 64 mm rain
- Lahān in MayNepal · 86 kmHigh 33.6°C · Low 24.0°C · 97 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 Darbhanga) is explained once on the Darbhanga year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Madhubani lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.