Climate averages 1991–2020

Mīāneh weather
in May.

A warm, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.5°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 11.6°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 35 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Mīāneh · average highYear overview

May is a warm month in Mīāneh: daytime highs average 25.5°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 10 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ardabīl (105 km away). In May its highs average 19.7°C, 5.7°C cooler than Mīāneh, with 60 mm of rain.

Among the 128 cities listed in Iran, Mīāneh ranks 72nd of 128 for the warmest May highs and 104th of 128 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 128 cities is 27.8°C; Mīāneh is 2.4°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 5.7°C to 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 35 mm to 9.1 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -10-50510152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Mīāneh climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Mīāneh, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 5.1°C-3.6°C-3.6°C357.29.910 h
February 7.5°C-2.5°C-2.5°C428.210.811 h
March 13.9°C1.9°C1.9°C5210.611.912 h
April 19.9°C6.9°C6.9°C5710.613.113 h
May, selected 25.5°C11.6°C11.6°C358.314.214 h
June 31.2°C16.0°C16.0°C9.12.714.715 h
July 33.7°C18.4°C18.4°C4.61.114.514 h
August 33.7°C18.4°C18.4°C2.20.613.614 h
September 29.1°C14.9°C14.9°C5.91.412.512 h
October 22.1°C9.9°C9.9°C234.311.311 h
November 13.1°C3.2°C3.2°C416.910.210 h
December 7.3°C-1.2°C-1.2°C346.99.610 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

Distance from Mīāneh

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