Climate averages 1991–2020
Jorhat weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Jorhat: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 323 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th 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 Dimāpur (106 km away). In May its highs average 29.3°C, about as warm as Jorhat, with 235 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Jorhat ranks joint 674th of 692 for the warmest May highs and 681st of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Jorhat is 8.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 30.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 323 mm to 433 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
Jorhat climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.9°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 25 | 4.6 | 10.711 h |
| February | 23.7°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 56 | 7.5 | 11.211 h |
| March | 26.4°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 133 | 12.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 27.7°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 254 | 17.8 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 29.2°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 323 | 23.1 | 13.413 h |
| June | 30.6°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 433 | 27.2 | 13.814 h |
| July | 30.9°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 478 | 29.7 | 13.614 h |
| August | 31.1°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 427 | 28.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 30.5°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 316 | 24.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.8°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 127 | 12.8 | 11.512 h |
| November | 26.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 17 | 3.0 | 10.911 h |
| December | 23.2°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 11 | 1.9 | 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
- Dimāpur in MayIndia · 106 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.6°C · 235 mm rain
- Dibrugarh in MayIndia · 106 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 22.5°C · 417 mm rain
- Kohima in MayIndia · 121 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.3°C · 304 mm rain
- Tezpur in MayIndia · 140 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 385 mm rain
- Tinsukia in MayIndia · 140 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 333 mm rain
- Nagaon in MayIndia · 159 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 276 mm rain
- Imphal in MayIndia · 218 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 19.6°C · 167 mm rain
- Guwahati in MayIndia · 253 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.1°C · 317 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 Jorhat) is explained once on the Jorhat year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.