Climate averages 1991–2020
Yangon weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Yangon: daytime highs average 32.8°C and nights cool to about 25.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 270 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 54 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Set Ka Lay (5 km away). In May its highs average 33.1°C, about as warm as Yangon, with 281 mm of rain.
Among the 49 cities listed in Myanmar, Yangon ranks 26th of 49 for the warmest May highs and joint 34th of 49 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 49 cities is 32.2°C; Yangon is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 3.3°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 270 mm to 450 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
Yangon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.6°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 4.1 | 0.7 | 11.211 h |
| February | 33.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 2.1 | 0.3 | 11.612 h |
| March | 35.5°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 11 | 1.7 | 12.012 h |
| April | 36.7°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 41 | 4.9 | 12.513 h |
| May, selected | 32.8°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 270 | 22.3 | 12.913 h |
| June | 29.5°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 450 | 29.7 | 13.113 h |
| July | 29.0°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 484 | 30.6 | 13.013 h |
| August | 28.8°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 482 | 30.8 | 12.713 h |
| September | 29.4°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 359 | 28.7 | 12.212 h |
| October | 30.1°C24.1°C | 24.1°C | 173 | 20.1 | 11.812 h |
| November | 30.6°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 35 | 4.5 | 11.411 h |
| December | 30.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 4.7 | 0.7 | 11.111 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
- Set Ka Lay in MayMyanmar · 5 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 25.8°C · 281 mm rain
- Hlaingthaya in MayMyanmar · 11 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 25.8°C · 281 mm rain
- Kyauktan in MayMyanmar · 26 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 26.0°C · 270 mm rain
- San Chaung in MayMyanmar · 33 kmHigh 33.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 247 mm rain
- Taikkyi in MayMyanmar · 60 kmHigh 33.5°C · Low 25.6°C · 246 mm rain
- Dawbon in MayMyanmar · 67 kmHigh 33.3°C · Low 25.7°C · 272 mm rain
- Bago in MayMyanmar · 68 kmHigh 33.1°C · Low 25.4°C · 290 mm rain
- Hinthada in MayMyanmar · 120 kmHigh 34.0°C · Low 25.8°C · 189 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 Yangon) is explained once on the Yangon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kyauktan lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.