Palayad Weather in May

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Palayad, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 32°C on May 1 to 29°C on May 31, and lows from 26°C to 26°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 208 mm over about 22 wet days.

May day by day

The normal high and low for each date, in °C.

Normal low
Normal high
Reanalysis extreme high
Reanalysis extreme low

May at a glance

Average high: 31°C
Average low: 26°C
Precipitation: 208 mm
Reanalysis high: 37°CMay 2, 2002
Reanalysis low: 23°CMay 19, 2017
Daylight: 12 h 32 min to 12 h 45 min
Cloud cover: 69%
Humidity: 80%
Dew point: 24°C
Wind: 11.5 km/h

Every day of the month

A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.

Date	Normal high	Normal low	Reanalysis high	Reanalysis low	Chance wet
May 1	32°C	26°C	35°C 2002	25°C 1994	65%
May 2	32°C	26°C	37°C 2002	24°C 1994	65%
May 3	32°C	26°C	35°C 1998	25°C 1994	67%
May 4	32°C	26°C	34°C 1998	26°C 2000	67%
May 5	31°C	26°C	34°C 1998	25°C 2012	68%
May 6	31°C	26°C	34°C 2019	24°C 2012	69%
May 7	31°C	26°C	34°C 1998	24°C 2012	69%
May 8	31°C	26°C	35°C 1998	24°C 2012	69%
May 9	31°C	26°C	34°C 1998	25°C 1999	70%
May 10	31°C	26°C	34°C 2019	25°C 1999	70%
May 11	31°C	26°C	33°C 1991	25°C 1999	70%
May 12	31°C	26°C	33°C 1997	25°C 1999	69%
May 13	31°C	26°C	33°C 2020	25°C 2012	69%
May 14	31°C	26°C	33°C 2000	25°C 1999	70%
May 15	31°C	26°C	34°C 1996	25°C 1999	70%
May 16	31°C	26°C	34°C 1991	25°C 2007	70%
May 17	31°C	26°C	34°C 1996	25°C 2000	71%
May 18	30°C	26°C	34°C 2005	24°C 1999	71%
May 19	30°C	26°C	33°C 1994	23°C 2017	73%
May 20	30°C	26°C	33°C 1996	24°C 2009	74%
May 21	30°C	26°C	34°C 1991	24°C 1992	76%
May 22	30°C	26°C	34°C 2019	25°C 1999	77%
May 23	30°C	26°C	32°C 1997	25°C 1999	78%
May 24	30°C	26°C	32°C 2016	24°C 1999	79%
May 25	30°C	26°C	32°C 1994	24°C 1999	81%
May 26	30°C	26°C	32°C 1997	24°C 2001	83%
May 27	30°C	26°C	33°C 2019	24°C 1999	85%
May 28	30°C	26°C	33°C 2019	24°C 2015	87%
May 29	29°C	26°C	32°C 2019	24°C 1999	88%
May 30	29°C	26°C	33°C 1998	24°C 2001	90%
May 31	29°C	26°C	33°C 2003	24°C 2004	92%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT+5:30).

May 1: sunrise 6:09 AM, sunset 6:41 PM
May 31: sunrise 6:03 AM, sunset 6:48 PM

Every day of May: sun and moon

Other months

Sources

Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.