Climate averages 1991–2020
Mandalay weather
in May.
A very hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a very hot month in Mandalay: daytime highs average 34.6°C and nights cool to about 26.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 154 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Amarapura (8 km away). In May its highs average 35.0°C, about as warm as Mandalay, with 154 mm of rain.
Among the 49 cities listed in Myanmar, Mandalay ranks joint 10th of 49 for the warmest May highs and joint 18th of 49 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 49 cities is 32.2°C; Mandalay is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.7°C to 31.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 154 mm to 119 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
Mandalay climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 8.4 | 0.9 | 11.011 h |
| February | 30.9°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 3.7 | 0.7 | 11.411 h |
| March | 35.3°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 12 | 1.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 37.3°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 25 | 4.5 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 34.6°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 154 | 15.7 | 13.213 h |
| June | 31.9°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 119 | 18.0 | 13.513 h |
| July | 31.3°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 117 | 18.8 | 13.313 h |
| August | 30.5°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 165 | 21.2 | 12.913 h |
| September | 30.3°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 185 | 21.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 29.8°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 164 | 18.9 | 11.712 h |
| November | 28.4°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 47 | 5.1 | 11.111 h |
| December | 26.8°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 10 | 1.2 | 10.811 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
- Amarapura in MayMyanmar · 8 kmHigh 35.0°C · Low 26.5°C · 154 mm rain
- Pyin Oo Lwin in MayMyanmar · 39 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 20.3°C · 161 mm rain
- Shwebo in MayMyanmar · 77 kmHigh 34.6°C · Low 26.1°C · 218 mm rain
- Myingyan in MayMyanmar · 92 kmHigh 36.4°C · Low 27.2°C · 105 mm rain
- Monywa in MayMyanmar · 99 kmHigh 36.1°C · Low 27.0°C · 121 mm rain
- Mogok in MayMyanmar · 114 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.1°C · 340 mm rain
- Meiktila in MayMyanmar · 124 kmHigh 34.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 121 mm rain
- Pakokku in MayMyanmar · 125 kmHigh 36.2°C · Low 27.0°C · 101 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 Mandalay) is explained once on the Mandalay year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Amarapura lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.