Climate averages 1991–2020
Kitengela weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Kitengela: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 15.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 80 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mlolongo (9 km away). In May its highs average 23.3°C, about as warm as Kitengela, with 80 mm of rain.
Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Kitengela ranks joint 22nd of 37 for the warmest May highs and joint 10th of 37 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 37 cities is 25.2°C; Kitengela is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 22.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 80 mm to 31 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
Kitengela climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.4°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 41 | 7.7 | 12.212 h |
| February | 26.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 36 | 6.5 | 12.212 h |
| March | 26.3°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 72 | 13.3 | 12.112 h |
| April | 24.5°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 132 | 21.3 | 12.112 h |
| May, selected | 23.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 80 | 15.6 | 12.112 h |
| June | 22.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 31 | 6.7 | 12.012 h |
| July | 22.0°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 11 | 2.7 | 12.012 h |
| August | 22.6°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 15 | 3.0 | 12.112 h |
| September | 24.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 11 | 2.2 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 37 | 8.6 | 12.112 h |
| November | 23.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 114 | 21.3 | 12.212 h |
| December | 23.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 69 | 15.1 | 12.212 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
- Mlolongo in MayKenya · 9 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.2°C · 80 mm rain
- Ongata Rongai in MayKenya · 24 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 14.7°C · 82 mm rain
- Nairobi in MayKenya · 27 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.9°C · 92 mm rain
- Ngong in MayKenya · 35 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 13.9°C · 92 mm rain
- Ruiru in MayKenya · 37 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya in MayKenya · 40 kmHigh 21.4°C · Low 13.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Kikuyu in MayKenya · 42 kmHigh 21.0°C · Low 13.1°C · 92 mm rain
- Thika in MayKenya · 51 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.1°C · 136 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 Kitengela) is explained once on the Kitengela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mlolongo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.