Climate averages 1991–2020
Ubud weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Ubud: daytime highs average 28.0°C and nights cool to about 23.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a wet month (the 6th 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 Klungkung (15 km away). In May its highs average 29.0°C, 1.0°C warmer than Ubud, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 200 cities listed in Indonesia, Ubud ranks 171st of 200 for the warmest May highs and joint 46th of 200 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 200 cities is 29.2°C; Ubud is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 103 mm to 65 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
Ubud climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.9°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 391 | 28.8 | 12.613 h |
| February | 28.0°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 360 | 26.9 | 12.412 h |
| March | 28.2°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 332 | 27.8 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.3°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 213 | 23.4 | 11.912 h |
| May, selected | 28.0°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 103 | 16.8 | 11.712 h |
| June | 27.3°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 65 | 12.6 | 11.612 h |
| July | 26.6°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 50 | 11.3 | 11.712 h |
| August | 26.9°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 30 | 9.3 | 11.812 h |
| September | 27.8°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 50 | 10.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.6°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 92 | 15.7 | 12.312 h |
| November | 28.5°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 243 | 23.3 | 12.512 h |
| December | 27.9°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 364 | 28.0 | 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.
Compare places
May in nearby cities
- Klungkung in MayIndonesia · 15 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Denpasar in MayIndonesia · 16 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 24.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Sukawati in MayIndonesia · 24 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 24.2°C · 83 mm rain
- Singaraja in MayIndonesia · 48 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 24.5°C · 75 mm rain
- Banjar, Indonesia in MayIndonesia · 48 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 25.0°C · 139 mm rain
- Negara in MayIndonesia · 73 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 24.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Mataram in MayIndonesia · 94 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 24.2°C · 48 mm rain
- Banyuwangi in MayIndonesia · 105 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 24.0°C · 87 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 Ubud) is explained once on the Ubud year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.