Climate averages 1991–2020
Kuwait City weather
in May.
A very hot, very dry month: the 5th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Kuwait City: daytime highs average 37.0°C and nights cool to about 26.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 2.2 mm of rain on fewer than one day, which makes May a very dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 36 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ḩawallī (6 km away). In May its highs average 37.0°C, about as warm as Kuwait City, with 2.2 mm of rain.
Among the 3 cities listed in Kuwait, Kuwait City ranks joint 2nd of 3 for the warmest May highs and joint 1st of 3 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 3 cities is 37.4°C; Kuwait City is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.9°C to 41.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 2.2 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
Kuwait City climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 28 | 4.3 | 10.510 h |
| February | 20.0°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 13 | 2.6 | 11.111 h |
| March | 24.8°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 17 | 2.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.5°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 37.0°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 2.2 | 0.3 | 13.614 h |
| June | 41.9°C30.0°C | 30.0°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 14.014 h |
| July | 43.3°C31.7°C | 31.7°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.814 h |
| August | 43.1°C31.5°C | 31.5°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 13.213 h |
| September | 40.0°C28.2°C | 28.2°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.412 h |
| October | 34.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 2.3 | 0.4 | 11.511 h |
| November | 25.4°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 30 | 3.0 | 10.711 h |
| December | 19.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 25 | 3.9 | 10.310 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
- Ḩawallī in MayKuwait · 6 kmHigh 37.0°C · Low 25.9°C · 2.2 mm rain
- Al Aḩmadī in MayKuwait · 34 kmHigh 38.3°C · Low 25.5°C · 2.2 mm rain
- Umm Qaşr in MayIraq · 75 kmHigh 40.1°C · Low 25.5°C · 2.8 mm rain
- Al Fāw in MayIraq · 83 kmHigh 34.9°C · Low 26.6°C · 2.3 mm rain
- Abadan in MayIran · 113 kmHigh 40.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 3.1 mm rain
- Az Zubayr in MayIraq · 117 kmHigh 40.3°C · Low 25.5°C · 4.6 mm rain
- Abū al-Kahṣīb in MayIraq · 120 kmHigh 40.4°C · Low 25.6°C · 4.3 mm rain
- Khorramshahr in MayIran · 121 kmHigh 40.5°C · Low 25.8°C · 3.9 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 Kuwait City) is explained once on the Kuwait City year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ḩawallī lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures come from the same 0.1° cell and differ only by the elevation adjustment.