Climate averages 1991–2020
Mumbai weather
in May.
A hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Mumbai: daytime highs average 32.5°C and nights cool to about 26.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 15 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 01 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Thāne (16 km away). In May its highs average 34.4°C, 1.9°C warmer than Mumbai, with 11 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Mumbai ranks joint 623rd of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 221st of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Mumbai is 4.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.5°C to 30.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 15 mm to 420 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
Mumbai climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.4°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 0.8 | 0.2 | 11.111 h |
| February | 30.3°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 11.512 h |
| March | 32.2°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 0.8 | 0.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 32.7°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 32.5°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 15 | 3.0 | 13.013 h |
| June | 30.0°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 420 | 24.9 | 13.313 h |
| July | 27.8°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 636 | 31.0 | 13.213 h |
| August | 27.6°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 477 | 30.4 | 12.813 h |
| September | 28.6°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 295 | 23.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 31.2°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 61 | 8.8 | 11.712 h |
| November | 31.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 7.9 | 1.4 | 11.311 h |
| December | 30.4°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 5.5 | 0.5 | 11.011 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
- Thāne in MayIndia · 16 kmHigh 34.4°C · Low 26.3°C · 11 mm rain
- Borivli in MayIndia · 18 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 26.6°C · 12 mm rain
- Bhayandar in MayIndia · 26 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 26.5°C · 12 mm rain
- Panvel in MayIndia · 26 kmHigh 34.6°C · Low 26.1°C · 15 mm rain
- Bhiwandi in MayIndia · 31 kmHigh 35.8°C · Low 26.0°C · 11 mm rain
- Kalyān in MayIndia · 33 kmHigh 35.6°C · Low 26.1°C · 11 mm rain
- Ambarnath in MayIndia · 33 kmHigh 35.8°C · Low 25.7°C · 11 mm rain
- Badlapur in MayIndia · 41 kmHigh 35.9°C · Low 25.5°C · 11 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 Mumbai) is explained once on the Mumbai year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Panvel lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.