Climate averages 1991–2020
Mary weather
in May.
A hot, very dry month: the 4th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Mary: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 9.8 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes May a very dry month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 10 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bayramaly (30 km away). In May its highs average 31.2°C, about as warm as Mary, with 9.6 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Turkmenistan, Mary ranks 2nd of 7 for the warmest May highs and 3rd of 7 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 7 cities is 29.3°C; Mary is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.1°C to 36.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 9.8 mm to 1.0 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
Mary climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 20 | 4.5 | 9.910 h |
| February | 12.5°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 29 | 5.8 | 10.811 h |
| March | 18.4°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 38 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 24.9°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 24 | 5.0 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 31.1°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 9.8 | 2.6 | 14.214 h |
| June | 36.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 1.0 | 0.3 | 14.715 h |
| July | 38.1°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 14.514 h |
| August | 36.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 0.1 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 30.7°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 0.7 | 0.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 23.8°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 6.3 | 1.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.2°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 15 | 3.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 11.1°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 14 | 3.3 | 9.610 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
- Bayramaly in MayTurkmenistan · 30 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 18.1°C · 9.6 mm rain
- Türkmenabat in MayTurkmenistan · 224 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 17.8°C · 8.1 mm rain
- Mashhad in MayIran · 245 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 12.6°C · 34 mm rain
- Marāgheh (Razavi Khorasan), Iran in MayIran · 277 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 11.9°C · 34 mm rain
- Qūchān in MayIran · 298 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 10.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Ashgabat in MayTurkmenistan · 306 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 23 mm rain
- Neyshābūr in MayIran · 310 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 12.2°C · 36 mm rain
- Maymana in MayAfghanistan · 322 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 12.8°C · 29 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 Mary) is explained once on the Mary year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.