Climate averages 1991–2020

Al Ajaylat weather
in May.

A hot, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the 4th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 28.0°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 17.8°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 4.7 mm 1 day with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Al Ajaylat · average highYear overview

May is a hot month in Al Ajaylat: daytime highs average 28.0°C and nights cool to about 17.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 4.7 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes May a very dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 49 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Şabrātah (11 km away). In May its highs average 28.0°C, about as warm as Al Ajaylat, with 4.7 mm of rain.

Among the 21 cities listed in Libya, Al Ajaylat ranks joint 6th of 21 for the warmest May highs and joint 13th of 21 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 21 cities is 27.2°C; Al Ajaylat is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 4.7 mm to under 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. 510152025303540 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 500

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

Every month, side by side

Al Ajaylat climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Al Ajaylat, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 16.8°C9.2°C9.2°C265.010.310 h
February 17.8°C9.5°C9.5°C233.911.011 h
March 21.1°C11.7°C11.7°C163.412.012 h
April 24.7°C14.5°C14.5°C9.41.913.013 h
May, selected 28.0°C17.8°C17.8°C4.71.013.814 h
June 31.2°C20.9°C20.9°C0.90.414.314 h
July 33.1°C22.8°C22.8°C0.10.014.114 h
August 33.6°C23.8°C23.8°C0.80.313.413 h
September 31.9°C23.1°C23.1°C9.71.812.412 h
October 28.1°C19.8°C19.8°C183.311.411 h
November 22.5°C14.7°C14.7°C204.210.511 h
December 18.0°C10.8°C10.8°C254.810.010 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 Al Ajaylat

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

Şabrātah and Şurmān lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.