Climate averages 1991–2020
Dhanbad weather
in May.
A very hot, moderately wet month: 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 Dhanbad: daytime highs average 37.3°C and nights cool to about 25.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 17 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Jharia (7 km away). In May its highs average 37.7°C, about as warm as Dhanbad, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Dhanbad ranks joint 437th of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 553rd of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Dhanbad is level with that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 3.2°C to 34.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 216 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
Dhanbad climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 13 | 2.3 | 10.811 h |
| February | 27.3°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 18 | 2.4 | 11.311 h |
| March | 32.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 19 | 2.8 | 12.012 h |
| April | 37.0°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 22 | 5.3 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 37.3°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 72 | 11.2 | 13.313 h |
| June | 34.1°C26.1°C | 26.1°C | 216 | 20.8 | 13.614 h |
| July | 30.6°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 288 | 27.3 | 13.513 h |
| August | 30.1°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 257 | 27.2 | 13.013 h |
| September | 29.9°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 211 | 21.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 29.2°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 67 | 7.7 | 11.612 h |
| November | 27.1°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 8.8 | 1.1 | 11.011 h |
| December | 24.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 8.5 | 1.2 | 10.711 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
- Jharia in MayIndia · 7 kmHigh 37.7°C · Low 25.7°C · 72 mm rain
- Bokāro in MayIndia · 32 kmHigh 38.0°C · Low 25.6°C · 62 mm rain
- Chas in MayIndia · 32 kmHigh 38.0°C · Low 25.6°C · 62 mm rain
- Kulti in MayIndia · 43 kmHigh 36.9°C · Low 25.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Phusro in MayIndia · 43 kmHigh 37.9°C · Low 25.4°C · 53 mm rain
- Giridih in MayIndia · 45 kmHigh 36.8°C · Low 25.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Puruliya in MayIndia · 52 kmHigh 37.3°C · Low 25.7°C · 82 mm rain
- Āsansol in MayIndia · 58 kmHigh 36.8°C · Low 25.9°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 Dhanbad) is explained once on the Dhanbad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Jharia lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.