Climate averages 1991–2020
Kohima weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Kohima: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 15.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 304 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 23 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dimāpur (47 km away). In May its highs average 29.3°C, 5.9°C warmer than Kohima, with 235 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Kohima ranks 684th of 692 for the warmest May highs and 679th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Kohima is 13.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 24.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 304 mm to 480 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
Kohima climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.6°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 26 | 5.2 | 10.711 h |
| February | 17.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 43 | 7.2 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.5°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 89 | 12.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.3°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 180 | 19.3 | 12.713 h |
| May, selected | 23.5°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 304 | 25.9 | 13.413 h |
| June | 24.5°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 480 | 29.0 | 13.714 h |
| July | 24.4°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 534 | 30.6 | 13.614 h |
| August | 24.3°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 501 | 30.6 | 13.013 h |
| September | 23.7°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 375 | 28.7 | 12.312 h |
| October | 21.8°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 209 | 24.1 | 11.612 h |
| November | 19.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 45 | 8.6 | 10.911 h |
| December | 16.7°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 19 | 3.3 | 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
- Dimāpur in MayIndia · 47 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.6°C · 235 mm rain
- Imphal in MayIndia · 98 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 19.6°C · 167 mm rain
- Jorhat in MayIndia · 121 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.8°C · 323 mm rain
- Silchar in MayIndia · 162 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.3°C · 417 mm rain
- Nagaon in MayIndia · 163 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 276 mm rain
- Tezpur in MayIndia · 169 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 385 mm rain
- Dibrugarh in MayIndia · 216 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 22.5°C · 417 mm rain
- Shillong in MayIndia · 224 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 16.5°C · 453 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 Kohima) is explained once on the Kohima year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.