Climate averages 1991–2020
Beirut weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Beirut: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 54 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Aley (13 km away). In May its highs average 22.2°C, 3.9°C cooler than Beirut, with 18 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Lebanon, Beirut ranks 1st of 8 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 8 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 8 cities is 24.6°C; Beirut is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 17 mm to 2.0 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
Beirut climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.7°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 144 | 13.8 | 10.210 h |
| February | 16.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 140 | 11.4 | 10.911 h |
| March | 18.8°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 105 | 9.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.3°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 46 | 5.6 | 13.013 h |
| May, selected | 26.1°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 17 | 3.0 | 13.914 h |
| June | 29.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 2.0 | 0.7 | 14.414 h |
| July | 31.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 14.214 h |
| August | 31.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 0.8 | 0.3 | 13.413 h |
| September | 30.1°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 6.0 | 1.2 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.5°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 30 | 4.5 | 11.411 h |
| November | 22.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 78 | 7.7 | 10.410 h |
| December | 17.7°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 133 | 11.3 | 9.910 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
- Aley in MayLebanon · 13 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 11.3°C · 18 mm rain
- Jounieh in MayLebanon · 14 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 16.6°C · 17 mm rain
- Zahlé in MayLebanon · 37 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 12.3°C · 19 mm rain
- Sidon in MayLebanon · 39 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 20 mm rain
- Nabatîyé et Tahta in MayLebanon · 57 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 14.2°C · 20 mm rain
- Tripoli, Lebanon in MayLebanon · 68 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.9°C · 16 mm rain
- Tyre in MayLebanon · 75 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 17.3°C · 18 mm rain
- Dārayyā in MaySyria · 83 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 12.9°C · 8.0 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 Beirut) is explained once on the Beirut year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Jounieh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.