Climate averages 1991–2020
Jīroft weather
in May.
A very hot, very dry month: the 5th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Jīroft: daytime highs average 36.3°C and nights cool to about 21.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 1.2 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes May a very dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 34 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bam (77 km away). In May its highs average 35.1°C, 1.2°C cooler than Jīroft, with 4.4 mm of rain.
Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Jīroft ranks 18th of 128 for the warmest May highs and 7th of 128 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 128 cities is 27.8°C; Jīroft is 8.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.8°C to 40.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 1.2 mm to under 1 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
Jīroft climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.8°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 59 | 6.2 | 10.511 h |
| February | 18.2°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 63 | 6.4 | 11.211 h |
| March | 22.9°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 47 | 6.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.1°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 11 | 2.1 | 12.813 h |
| May, selected | 36.3°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 1.2 | 0.2 | 13.614 h |
| June | 40.1°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 13.914 h |
| July | 40.8°C27.1°C | 27.1°C | 2.7 | 0.9 | 13.814 h |
| August | 39.8°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 2.8 | 0.8 | 13.213 h |
| September | 36.7°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 31.2°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 1.4 | 0.4 | 11.512 h |
| November | 23.7°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 10.711 h |
| December | 18.7°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 25 | 3.1 | 10.410 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
- Bam in MayIran · 77 kmHigh 35.1°C · Low 22.0°C · 4.4 mm rain
- Mīnāb in MayIran · 184 kmHigh 39.8°C · Low 25.9°C · 0.5 mm rain
- Kerman in MayIran · 190 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 16.2°C · 4.5 mm rain
- Sirjan in MayIran · 218 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 14.5°C · 3.3 mm rain
- Bandar Abbas in MayIran · 219 kmHigh 38.6°C · Low 26.1°C · 0.9 mm rain
- Rafsanjān in MayIran · 256 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 16.1°C · 2.3 mm rain
- Dārāb in MayIran · 312 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 19.4°C · 1.0 mm rain
- Zahedan in MayIran · 317 kmHigh 32.5°C · Low 19.4°C · 2.6 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 Jīroft) is explained once on the Jīroft year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.