Climate averages 1991–2020
Clovis weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the 5th 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 Clovis: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 13.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 07 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fresno (11 km away). In May its highs average 28.2°C, 0.7°C warmer than Clovis, with 17 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Clovis ranks joint 111th of 498 for the warmest May highs and joint 88th of 498 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 498 cities is 23.8°C; Clovis is 3.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.2°C to 32.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 17 mm to 4.8 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
Clovis climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.3°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 89 | 7.5 | 9.910 h |
| February | 16.1°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 75 | 8.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 19.0°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 74 | 7.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 22.4°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 35 | 4.4 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 27.6°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 17 | 2.7 | 14.114 h |
| June | 32.8°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 4.8 | 0.6 | 14.615 h |
| July | 36.3°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 1.5 | 0.2 | 14.414 h |
| August | 35.8°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 0.4 | 0.2 | 13.614 h |
| September | 32.5°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 1.8 | 0.5 | 12.512 h |
| October | 25.9°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 22 | 2.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 18.7°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 36 | 4.3 | 10.210 h |
| December | 14.0°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 71 | 6.9 | 9.710 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
- Fresno in MayUnited States · 11 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 14.1°C · 17 mm rain
- Visalia in MayUnited States · 66 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 13.7°C · 23 mm rain
- Merced in MayUnited States · 87 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 13.7°C · 19 mm rain
- Turlock in MayUnited States · 126 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 13.3°C · 19 mm rain
- Modesto in MayUnited States · 146 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 12.9°C · 20 mm rain
- Manteca in MayUnited States · 172 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 12.3°C · 18 mm rain
- Bakersfield in MayUnited States · 173 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 14.4°C · 9.8 mm rain
- Salinas in MayUnited States · 175 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 10.0°C · 15 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 Clovis) is explained once on the Clovis year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Fresno lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.