Climate averages 1991–2020
Jaipur weather
in May.
A very hot, very dry 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 Jaipur: daytime highs average 40.0°C and nights cool to about 26.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 12 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes May a very dry month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 27 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dausa (54 km away). In May its highs average 40.4°C, about as warm as Jaipur, with 12 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Jaipur ranks joint 124th of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 179th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Jaipur is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 38.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 12 mm to 56 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
Jaipur climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.3°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 9.3 | 1.5 | 10.611 h |
| February | 25.1°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 8.2 | 1.7 | 11.211 h |
| March | 30.9°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 7.5 | 1.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 36.8°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 6.1 | 1.9 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 40.0°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 12 | 3.4 | 13.513 h |
| June | 38.3°C27.9°C | 27.9°C | 56 | 8.4 | 13.814 h |
| July | 32.9°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 168 | 17.8 | 13.714 h |
| August | 30.8°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 165 | 18.0 | 13.113 h |
| September | 32.1°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 57 | 8.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 32.3°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 11 | 1.8 | 11.512 h |
| November | 27.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 7.5 | 0.9 | 10.811 h |
| December | 23.1°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 3.2 | 0.8 | 10.510 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
- Dausa in MayIndia · 54 kmHigh 40.4°C · Low 26.5°C · 12 mm rain
- Tonk in MayIndia · 84 kmHigh 41.4°C · Low 27.6°C · 6.8 mm rain
- Kishangarh in MayIndia · 100 kmHigh 40.0°C · Low 26.8°C · 8.9 mm rain
- Sīkar in MayIndia · 100 kmHigh 39.8°C · Low 25.6°C · 12 mm rain
- Gangāpur in MayIndia · 105 kmHigh 40.9°C · Low 26.8°C · 8.2 mm rain
- Makrāna in MayIndia · 106 kmHigh 39.8°C · Low 26.6°C · 9.0 mm rain
- Alwar in MayIndia · 109 kmHigh 40.5°C · Low 26.5°C · 19 mm rain
- Sawai Madhopur in MayIndia · 114 kmHigh 41.7°C · Low 27.9°C · 7.0 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 Jaipur) is explained once on the Jaipur year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.