Climate averages 1991–2020
Şalālah weather
in May.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Şalālah: daytime highs average 33.2°C and nights cool to about 25.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes May a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 55 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mukalla (598 km away). In May its highs average 33.4°C, about as warm as Şalālah, with 6.4 mm of rain.
Among the 12 cities listed in Oman, Şalālah ranks 12th of 12 for the warmest May highs and 12th of 12 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 12 cities is 38.7°C; Şalālah is 5.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 32.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 8.9 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
Şalālah climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.7°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 1.5 | 0.5 | 11.211 h |
| February | 26.9°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 1.2 | 0.3 | 11.612 h |
| March | 29.3°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 7.0 | 1.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 31.9°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 2.2 | 0.7 | 12.513 h |
| May, selected | 33.2°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 30 | 1.1 | 12.913 h |
| June | 32.2°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 8.9 | 1.3 | 13.113 h |
| July | 29.4°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 2.8 | 0.7 | 13.013 h |
| August | 28.6°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 2.5 | 0.7 | 12.713 h |
| September | 29.9°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 4.6 | 1.3 | 12.212 h |
| October | 31.6°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 8.9 | 0.8 | 11.812 h |
| November | 30.1°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 8.1 | 1.2 | 11.411 h |
| December | 27.5°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 1.9 | 0.5 | 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
- Mukalla in MayYemen · 598 kmHigh 33.4°C · Low 26.9°C · 6.4 mm rain
- El Dibir in MaySomalia · 661 kmHigh 32.7°C · Low 27.5°C · 13 mm rain
- ‘Ibrī in MayOman · 735 kmHigh 40.2°C · Low 24.7°C · 1.1 mm rain
- Nizwá in MayOman · 750 kmHigh 40.0°C · Low 25.9°C · 4.7 mm rain
- Rustaq in MayOman · 790 kmHigh 40.9°C · Low 28.7°C · 2.3 mm rain
- Şaḩam in MayOman · 847 kmHigh 39.0°C · Low 26.5°C · 0.2 mm rain
- Seeb in MayOman · 854 kmHigh 36.6°C · Low 28.0°C · 0 mm rain
- Muscat in MayOman · 858 kmHigh 36.5°C · Low 27.8°C · 0.9 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 Şalālah) is explained once on the Şalālah year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.