Climate averages 1991–2020

Da Nang weather
in May.

A hot, wet month: the 4th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.6°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 25.9°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 118 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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May is a hot month in Da Nang: daytime highs average 31.6°C and nights cool to about 25.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 118 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes May a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 52 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hải Châu (19 km away). In May its highs average 33.0°C, 1.4°C warmer than Da Nang, with 118 mm of rain.

Among the 136 cities listed in Vietnam, Da Nang ranks joint 57th of 136 for the warmest May highs and joint 13th of 136 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 136 cities is 31.2°C; Da Nang is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 32.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 118 mm to 83 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 5000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Da Nang climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Da Nang, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 23.5°C19.8°C19.8°C17917.011.311 h
February 24.8°C20.3°C20.3°C9111.311.612 h
March 27.2°C22.1°C22.1°C879.712.012 h
April 29.8°C24.3°C24.3°C768.712.512 h
May, selected 31.6°C25.9°C25.9°C11815.512.913 h
June 32.7°C26.9°C26.9°C8314.513.113 h
July 32.5°C26.7°C26.7°C11316.413.013 h
August 32.0°C26.4°C26.4°C14719.312.713 h
September 30.0°C25.4°C25.4°C28922.712.212 h
October 27.5°C23.9°C23.9°C42224.511.812 h
November 25.9°C22.7°C22.7°C46022.111.411 h
December 23.8°C20.8°C20.8°C35322.811.211 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

Distance from Da Nang

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Da Nang) is explained once on the Da Nang year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Điện Bàn and Hải Châu lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.