Climate averages 1991–2020
Yên Bái weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Yên Bái: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 23.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 294 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 10 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tuyên Quang (33 km away). In May its highs average 30.9°C, 0.9°C warmer than Yên Bái, with 251 mm of rain.
Among the 136 cities listed in Vietnam, Yên Bái ranks joint 118th of 136 for the warmest May highs and 134th of 136 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 136 cities is 31.2°C; Yên Bái is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 294 mm to 398 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
Yên Bái climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.3°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 43 | 9.0 | 11.011 h |
| February | 20.4°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 33 | 7.3 | 11.411 h |
| March | 24.0°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 70 | 10.5 | 12.012 h |
| April | 27.9°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 126 | 13.1 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 30.0°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 294 | 20.0 | 13.213 h |
| June | 31.2°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 398 | 23.1 | 13.413 h |
| July | 30.9°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 407 | 25.6 | 13.313 h |
| August | 30.6°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 415 | 25.0 | 12.913 h |
| September | 29.5°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 229 | 19.6 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 115 | 12.5 | 11.712 h |
| November | 23.8°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 64 | 8.0 | 11.111 h |
| December | 19.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 41 | 7.9 | 10.811 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
- Tuyên Quang in MayVietnam · 33 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 251 mm rain
- Phú Thọ in MayVietnam · 48 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 24.1°C · 219 mm rain
- Việt Trì in MayVietnam · 67 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 24.2°C · 201 mm rain
- Thị Trấn Đại Từ in MayVietnam · 76 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.4°C · 260 mm rain
- Bắc Quang in MayVietnam · 85 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.7°C · 324 mm rain
- Vĩnh Yên in MayVietnam · 85 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.3°C · 201 mm rain
- Ba Vì in MayVietnam · 86 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.2°C · 244 mm rain
- Sơn Tây in MayVietnam · 89 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.3°C · 201 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 Yên Bái) is explained once on the Yên Bái year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.