Climate averages 1991–2020
Visakhapatnam weather
in May.
A very hot, fairly dry 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 Visakhapatnam: daytime highs average 34.9°C and nights cool to about 28.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 33 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 57 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rasapūdipalem (13 km away). In May its highs average 35.1°C, about as warm as Visakhapatnam, with 33 mm of rain.
Among the 692 cities listed in India, Visakhapatnam ranks joint 551st of 692 for the warmest May highs and joint 417th of 692 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 692 cities is 37.3°C; Visakhapatnam is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.7°C to 33.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 33 mm to 121 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
Visakhapatnam climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.9°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 9.6 | 2.4 | 11.211 h |
| February | 29.1°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 8.6 | 2.0 | 11.612 h |
| March | 31.9°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 6.9 | 1.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 33.5°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 9.6 | 1.9 | 12.513 h |
| May, selected | 34.9°C28.2°C | 28.2°C | 33 | 3.0 | 13.013 h |
| June | 33.2°C27.8°C | 27.8°C | 121 | 13.7 | 13.213 h |
| July | 30.9°C26.7°C | 26.7°C | 185 | 18.7 | 13.113 h |
| August | 30.3°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 199 | 19.0 | 12.713 h |
| September | 30.4°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 175 | 19.1 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.7°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 159 | 15.7 | 11.812 h |
| November | 28.3°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 87 | 6.6 | 11.311 h |
| December | 26.8°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 26 | 2.1 | 11.111 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
- Rasapūdipalem in MayIndia · 13 kmHigh 35.1°C · Low 28.2°C · 33 mm rain
- Anakapalle in MayIndia · 21 kmHigh 36.5°C · Low 27.7°C · 39 mm rain
- Vizianagaram in MayIndia · 53 kmHigh 36.5°C · Low 27.6°C · 33 mm rain
- Srikakulam in MayIndia · 101 kmHigh 34.5°C · Low 28.2°C · 34 mm rain
- Kākināda in MayIndia · 130 kmHigh 36.6°C · Low 28.5°C · 37 mm rain
- Jeypore in MayIndia · 147 kmHigh 35.2°C · Low 25.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Paralakhemundi in MayIndia · 154 kmHigh 36.8°C · Low 26.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Rāyagada in MayIndia · 167 kmHigh 37.6°C · Low 26.2°C · 74 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 Visakhapatnam) is explained once on the Visakhapatnam year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Rasapūdipalem lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.