Climate averages 1991–2020

Payyanur weather
in May.

A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 30.1°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 26.2°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 211 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Payyanur · average highYear overview

May is a hot month in Payyanur: daytime highs average 30.1°C and nights cool to about 26.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 211 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 41 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Taliparamba (18 km away). In May its highs average 30.9°C, 0.8°C warmer than Payyanur, with 211 mm of rain.

Among the 692 cities listed in India, Payyanur ranks joint 658th of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 653rd of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Payyanur is 7.3°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 2.6°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 211 mm to 614 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 20253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 6500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Payyanur climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Payyanur, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 29.9°C23.2°C23.2°C4.10.911.511 h
February 30.4°C23.9°C23.9°C3.80.911.712 h
March 30.9°C25.2°C25.2°C183.812.112 h
April 30.8°C26.1°C26.1°C7713.112.412 h
May, selected 30.1°C26.2°C26.2°C21119.312.713 h
June 27.5°C24.9°C24.9°C61429.312.813 h
July 26.7°C24.3°C24.3°C55830.512.813 h
August 26.7°C24.0°C24.0°C35528.312.513 h
September 27.4°C24.1°C24.1°C21321.312.212 h
October 28.1°C24.3°C24.3°C21921.811.912 h
November 29.0°C24.3°C24.3°C7110.611.612 h
December 29.6°C23.5°C23.5°C193.411.411 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

Distance from Payyanur

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Payyanur) is explained once on the Payyanur year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Taliparamba lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.