Climate averages 1991–2020
Imphal weather
in May.
A warm, wet month: one of the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Imphal: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 19.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 167 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kohima (98 km away). In May its highs average 23.5°C, 4.1°C cooler than Imphal, with 304 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Imphal ranks 681st of 692 for the warmest May highs and 641st of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Imphal is 9.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 27.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 167 mm to 251 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
Imphal climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 10 | 2.0 | 10.811 h |
| February | 22.2°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 19 | 3.7 | 11.311 h |
| March | 25.5°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 42 | 6.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 27.6°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 61 | 10.0 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 27.6°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 167 | 17.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 27.0°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 251 | 24.7 | 13.614 h |
| July | 26.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 257 | 27.2 | 13.514 h |
| August | 26.4°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 203 | 26.1 | 13.013 h |
| September | 26.3°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 145 | 21.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.3°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 94 | 14.2 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.9°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 23 | 3.2 | 11.011 h |
| December | 20.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 11 | 1.5 | 10.611 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
- Kohima in MayIndia · 98 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 304 mm rain
- Silchar in MayIndia · 116 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.3°C · 417 mm rain
- Dimāpur in MayIndia · 125 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.6°C · 235 mm rain
- Aizawl in MayIndia · 173 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.6°C · 224 mm rain
- Kalemyo in MayMyanmar · 180 kmHigh 34.4°C · Low 23.6°C · 233 mm rain
- Sylhet in MayBangladesh · 209 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.1°C · 759 mm rain
- Nagaon in MayIndia · 214 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 276 mm rain
- Jorhat in MayIndia · 218 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 323 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 Imphal) is explained once on the Imphal year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.