Climate averages 1991–2020
Mau weather
in May.
A very hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Mau: daytime highs average 38.7°C and nights cool to about 26.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 19 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 24 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ghazīpur (40 km away). In May its highs average 39.2°C, 0.5°C warmer than Mau, with 12 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Mau ranks joint 305th of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 269th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Mau is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 36.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 19 mm to 178 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
Mau climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.7°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 19 | 2.4 | 10.711 h |
| February | 25.6°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 19 | 2.7 | 11.311 h |
| March | 32.0°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 12 | 2.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 37.6°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 9.5 | 2.7 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 38.7°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 19 | 4.4 | 13.413 h |
| June | 36.4°C27.7°C | 27.7°C | 178 | 14.5 | 13.714 h |
| July | 32.1°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 346 | 25.7 | 13.614 h |
| August | 31.5°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 284 | 26.0 | 13.013 h |
| September | 31.0°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 208 | 19.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 30.4°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 41 | 4.8 | 11.612 h |
| November | 27.8°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 5.0 | 0.6 | 10.911 h |
| December | 23.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 6.7 | 0.9 | 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
- Ghazīpur in MayIndia · 40 kmHigh 39.2°C · Low 26.8°C · 12 mm rain
- Azamgarh in MayIndia · 40 kmHigh 38.7°C · Low 26.6°C · 17 mm rain
- Buxar in MayIndia · 58 kmHigh 39.0°C · Low 26.8°C · 18 mm rain
- Deoria in MayIndia · 66 kmHigh 37.7°C · Low 26.1°C · 34 mm rain
- Siwān in MayIndia · 85 kmHigh 37.6°C · Low 26.1°C · 29 mm rain
- Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar in MayIndia · 86 kmHigh 39.8°C · Low 26.9°C · 9.1 mm rain
- Varanasi in MayIndia · 89 kmHigh 39.8°C · Low 26.9°C · 9.1 mm rain
- Jaunpur in MayIndia · 90 kmHigh 39.7°C · Low 27.0°C · 14 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 Mau) is explained once on the Mau year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.