Where to Go in May

May across 279 indexable cities in this dataset: 127 average above 24°C, 110 sit between 15°C and 24°C, and 42 sit at 15°C or below. The hottest monthly average is Nagpur at 36.7°C; the coldest is Reykjavík at 5.7°C.

Rain that month spans 0 mm in Dammam to 310 mm in Gazipur. The sample mean temperature is 22.7°C and the sample mean rainfall is 84 mm.

Hemisphere and monsoon in May

Northern-hemisphere cities average 23.1°C in May; southern-hemisphere cities average 21.2°C. That split is the usual summer/winter reversal, not a scoring trick.

Monsoon-type cities that are inside their wet season this month include Dar es Salaam, Kakamega, Dhaka, Gazipur, Chattogram, Coimbatore, and 42 more. 50 monsoon-type cities are on the dry side of their year in May.