Climate averages 1991–2020
Ntuzuma weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 4th 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 Ntuzuma: daytime highs average 24.0°C and nights cool to about 14.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 39 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pinetown (11 km away). In May its highs average 22.8°C, 1.2°C cooler than Ntuzuma, with 43 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Ntuzuma ranks joint 4th of 95 for the warmest May highs and joint 85th of 95 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 95 cities is 21.0°C; Ntuzuma is 3.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 43 mm to 28 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
Ntuzuma climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27.0°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 91 | 13.0 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.4°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 84 | 11.4 | 13.113 h |
| March | 26.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 90 | 11.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 25.0°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 74 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May, selected | 24.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 43 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| June | 22.4°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 28 | 4.6 | 10.310 h |
| July | 22.0°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 42 | 4.7 | 10.410 h |
| August | 23.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 34 | 5.9 | 11.111 h |
| September | 23.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 60 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 23.7°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 89 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| November | 24.8°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 96 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 26.1°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 94 | 13.1 | 14.014 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
- Pinetown in MaySouth Africa · 11 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 13.6°C · 43 mm rain
- Durban in MaySouth Africa · 15 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 16.8°C · 43 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in MaySouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 10.4°C · 33 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in MaySouth Africa · 55 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 10.1°C · 29 mm rain
- KwaDukuza in MaySouth Africa · 56 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 15.7°C · 44 mm rain
- Richards Bay in MaySouth Africa · 150 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 17.7°C · 56 mm rain
- Ladysmith in MaySouth Africa · 174 kmHigh 21.8°C · Low 7.6°C · 21 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in MaySouth Africa · 188 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 8.7°C · 18 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 Ntuzuma) is explained once on the Ntuzuma year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Durban and Pinetown lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.