Climate averages 1991–2020
Kariega weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the joint 7th warmest and one of the 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 Kariega: daytime highs average 22.6°C and nights cool to about 12.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 23 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (one of the driest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 24 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Motherwell (18 km away). In May its highs average 22.3°C, about as warm as Kariega, with 23 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Kariega ranks joint 16th of 95 for the warmest May highs and joint 69th of 95 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 95 cities is 21.0°C; Kariega is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.0°C to 20.6°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 23 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
Kariega climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.6°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 40 | 7.9 | 14.114 h |
| February | 27.0°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 44 | 7.8 | 13.313 h |
| March | 26.0°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 47 | 7.8 | 12.312 h |
| April | 24.1°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 40 | 7.2 | 11.311 h |
| May, selected | 22.6°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 23 | 4.5 | 10.410 h |
| June | 20.6°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 23 | 4.1 | 9.910 h |
| July | 20.4°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 24 | 3.9 | 10.110 h |
| August | 20.6°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 36 | 5.7 | 10.911 h |
| September | 21.5°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 31 | 5.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 22.6°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 48 | 7.0 | 12.913 h |
| November | 23.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 57 | 7.8 | 13.814 h |
| December | 25.4°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 45 | 8.0 | 14.314 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
- Motherwell in MaySouth Africa · 18 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 12.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Gqeberha in MaySouth Africa · 30 kmHigh 20.8°C · Low 14.8°C · 38 mm rain
- Grahamstown in MaySouth Africa · 116 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 10.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Qonce in MaySouth Africa · 209 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 10.6°C · 23 mm rain
- Bhisho in MaySouth Africa · 215 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 9.9°C · 28 mm rain
- Mdantsane in MaySouth Africa · 239 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 12.9°C · 25 mm rain
- East London in MaySouth Africa · 247 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 15.8°C · 34 mm rain
- Queenstown in MaySouth Africa · 248 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 6.9°C · 14 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 Kariega) is explained once on the Kariega year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Motherwell lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.