Climate averages 1991–2020
Puri weather
in May.
A very hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Puri: daytime highs average 34.6°C and nights cool to about 27.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 44 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 04 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bhubaneswar (53 km away). In May its highs average 36.9°C, 2.3°C warmer than Puri, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Puri ranks joint 567th of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 478th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Puri is 2.7°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.9°C to 32.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 44 mm to 205 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
Puri climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.2°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 11 | 1.7 | 11.111 h |
| February | 29.9°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 14 | 2.3 | 11.511 h |
| March | 33.0°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 10 | 2.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 34.0°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 12 | 1.7 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 34.6°C27.9°C | 27.9°C | 44 | 3.1 | 13.113 h |
| June | 32.7°C27.9°C | 27.9°C | 205 | 15.6 | 13.313 h |
| July | 30.6°C26.9°C | 26.9°C | 345 | 24.2 | 13.213 h |
| August | 30.2°C26.4°C | 26.4°C | 332 | 25.6 | 12.813 h |
| September | 30.5°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 255 | 23.1 | 12.312 h |
| October | 30.1°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 183 | 15.3 | 11.712 h |
| November | 28.8°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 55 | 4.0 | 11.211 h |
| December | 27.1°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 17 | 1.4 | 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
- Bhubaneswar in MayIndia · 53 kmHigh 36.9°C · Low 27.4°C · 55 mm rain
- Cuttack in MayIndia · 74 kmHigh 37.4°C · Low 27.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Parādīp Garh in MayIndia · 100 kmHigh 33.9°C · Low 28.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Brahmapur in MayIndia · 121 kmHigh 35.5°C · Low 27.6°C · 51 mm rain
- Bhadrak in MayIndia · 157 kmHigh 37.3°C · Low 27.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Paralakhemundi in MayIndia · 214 kmHigh 36.8°C · Low 26.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Balasore in MayIndia · 221 kmHigh 35.3°C · Low 27.5°C · 83 mm rain
- Baripāda in MayIndia · 255 kmHigh 36.9°C · Low 26.5°C · 90 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 Puri) is explained once on the Puri year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.