Climate averages 1991–2020
Kozhikode 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 Kozhikode: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 279 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 38 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Koyilandy (23 km away). In May its highs average 29.7°C, about as warm as Kozhikode, with 270 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Kozhikode ranks joint 656th of 692 for the warmest May highs and 671st of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Kozhikode is 7.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 279 mm to 690 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
Kozhikode climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.5°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 7.5 | 1.9 | 11.512 h |
| February | 31.7°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 6.3 | 1.8 | 11.812 h |
| March | 32.4°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 27 | 5.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 31.7°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 118 | 18.6 | 12.412 h |
| May, selected | 30.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 279 | 22.3 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.6°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 690 | 29.2 | 12.813 h |
| July | 26.8°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 600 | 29.7 | 12.713 h |
| August | 27.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 405 | 26.8 | 12.512 h |
| September | 27.7°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 245 | 20.8 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.2°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 265 | 24.0 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.8°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 132 | 16.8 | 11.612 h |
| December | 29.4°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 32 | 6.4 | 11.511 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
- Koyilandy in MayIndia · 23 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 25.8°C · 270 mm rain
- Manjeri in MayIndia · 40 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 24.3°C · 267 mm rain
- Malappuram in MayIndia · 40 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.5°C · 267 mm rain
- Badagara in MayIndia · 45 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 25.3°C · 284 mm rain
- Ponnāni in MayIndia · 56 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 25.5°C · 286 mm rain
- Tellicherry in MayIndia · 64 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 25.2°C · 246 mm rain
- Thrissur in MayIndia · 94 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 25.5°C · 237 mm rain
- Taliparamba in MayIndia · 99 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 25.4°C · 211 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 Kozhikode) is explained once on the Kozhikode year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.