Climate averages 1991–2020

Sukawati weather
in May.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.9°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 24.2°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 83 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a warm month in Sukawati: daytime highs average 27.9°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 44 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ubud (24 km away). In May its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Sukawati, with 103 mm of rain.

Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Sukawati ranks joint 172nd of 200 for the warmest May highs and joint 19th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Sukawati is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 55 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Sukawati climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sukawati, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	27.8°C24.2°C	24.2°C	286	27.8	12.613 h
February	28.0°C24.3°C	24.3°C	243	26.2	12.412 h
March	28.1°C24.3°C	24.3°C	237	26.7	12.212 h
April	28.1°C24.4°C	24.4°C	174	22.2	11.912 h
May, selected	27.9°C24.2°C	24.2°C	83	13.7	11.712 h
June	27.2°C23.6°C	23.6°C	55	9.9	11.612 h
July	26.6°C22.8°C	22.8°C	39	8.2	11.712 h
August	26.7°C22.4°C	22.4°C	21	6.0	11.812 h
September	27.3°C22.6°C	22.6°C	45	8.7	12.112 h
October	28.1°C23.3°C	23.3°C	84	15.0	12.312 h
November	28.2°C24.0°C	24.0°C	225	22.6	12.512 h
December	27.8°C24.2°C	24.2°C	289	27.7	12.613 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.

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May in nearby cities

Distance from Sukawati

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 Sukawati) is explained once on the Sukawati year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.