Climate averages 1991–2020
Vellore weather
in May.
A very hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Vellore: daytime highs average 37.8°C and nights cool to about 26.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 43 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rānipet (22 km away). In May its highs average 38.2°C, about as warm as Vellore, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Vellore ranks joint 393rd of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 521st of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Vellore is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.8°C to 35.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 mm to 90 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
Vellore climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.6°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 9.9 | 2.9 | 11.511 h |
| February | 31.6°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 6.2 | 1.6 | 11.712 h |
| March | 34.9°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 11 | 1.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 36.9°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 21 | 3.5 | 12.412 h |
| May, selected | 37.8°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 59 | 9.7 | 12.713 h |
| June | 35.0°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 90 | 14.5 | 12.913 h |
| July | 33.9°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 94 | 14.6 | 12.813 h |
| August | 33.3°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 107 | 15.8 | 12.613 h |
| September | 32.8°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 135 | 16.9 | 12.212 h |
| October | 30.6°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 170 | 18.8 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 138 | 14.0 | 11.512 h |
| December | 27.3°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 72 | 7.0 | 11.411 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
- Rānipet in MayIndia · 22 kmHigh 38.2°C · Low 27.0°C · 59 mm rain
- Gudiyatham in MayIndia · 28 kmHigh 37.3°C · Low 26.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Chittoor in MayIndia · 33 kmHigh 37.2°C · Low 26.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Ambur in MayIndia · 47 kmHigh 36.9°C · Low 25.6°C · 78 mm rain
- Arakkonam in MayIndia · 61 kmHigh 38.3°C · Low 27.5°C · 46 mm rain
- Vaniyambadi in MayIndia · 61 kmHigh 36.5°C · Low 25.3°C · 91 mm rain
- Kanchipuram in MayIndia · 62 kmHigh 38.1°C · Low 27.5°C · 45 mm rain
- Tiruvannamalai in MayIndia · 77 kmHigh 37.6°C · Low 26.7°C · 62 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 Vellore) is explained once on the Vellore year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Rānipet lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.