Climate averages 1991–2020
Ukunda weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Ukunda: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 220 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes May a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matuga (14 km away). In May its highs average 26.8°C, 0.7°C cooler than Ukunda, with 220 mm of rain.
Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Ukunda ranks 11th of 37 for the warmest May highs and joint 30th of 37 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 37 cities is 25.2°C; Ukunda is 2.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.8°C to 26.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 220 mm to 93 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
Ukunda climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31.5°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 24 | 4.4 | 12.312 h |
| February | 32.0°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 16 | 3.4 | 12.212 h |
| March | 31.3°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 54 | 13.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.1°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 134 | 24.0 | 12.012 h |
| May, selected | 27.5°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 220 | 23.6 | 11.912 h |
| June | 26.7°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 93 | 20.3 | 11.912 h |
| July | 26.0°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 74 | 20.4 | 11.912 h |
| August | 26.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 61 | 19.3 | 12.012 h |
| September | 27.1°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 52 | 17.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.1°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 84 | 16.9 | 12.212 h |
| November | 29.1°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 74 | 16.9 | 12.312 h |
| December | 30.5°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 59 | 14.0 | 12.412 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
- Matuga in MayKenya · 14 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 23.3°C · 220 mm rain
- Mombasa in MayKenya · 29 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 23.9°C · 223 mm rain
- Jomvu in MayKenya · 34 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.7°C · 155 mm rain
- Mtwapa in MayKenya · 44 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 23.9°C · 223 mm rain
- Kilifi in MayKenya · 80 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 24.4°C · 167 mm rain
- Tanga in MayTanzania · 101 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 23.2°C · 165 mm rain
- Malindi in MayKenya · 134 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 24.7°C · 152 mm rain
- Zanzibar in MayTanzania · 212 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 146 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 Ukunda) is explained once on the Ukunda year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Matuga lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.