Ifakara Weather in May

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

Average highs run from 24°C on May 1 to 23°C on May 31, and lows from 17°C to 15°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 90 mm over about 12 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: 23°C
Average low: 16°C
Precipitation: 90 mm
Reanalysis high: 27°CMay 6, 2001
Reanalysis low: 10°CMay 17, 1998
Daylight: 11 h 49 min to 11 h 41 min
Cloud cover: 59%
Humidity: 85%
Dew point: 16°C
Wind: 9.4 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	24°C	17°C	25°C 2001	14°C 1996	68%
May 2	24°C	17°C	26°C 2001	15°C 2002	65%
May 3	24°C	17°C	26°C 1992	13°C 2002	62%
May 4	24°C	17°C	26°C 1992	14°C 2008	60%
May 5	24°C	17°C	27°C 2001	14°C 2004	60%
May 6	23°C	16°C	27°C 2001	13°C 1997	58%
May 7	23°C	16°C	26°C 2001	12°C 1997	57%
May 8	23°C	16°C	26°C 2001	12°C 1997	54%
May 9	23°C	16°C	26°C 2001	12°C 2002	51%
May 10	23°C	16°C	26°C 2003	13°C 2016	48%
May 11	23°C	16°C	26°C 2003	13°C 2002	46%
May 12	23°C	16°C	27°C 2002	12°C 2002	44%
May 13	23°C	16°C	26°C 2002	12°C 1993	41%
May 14	23°C	16°C	27°C 2002	13°C 2002	41%
May 15	23°C	16°C	26°C 2002	13°C 2009	41%
May 16	23°C	16°C	25°C 2001	12°C 1998	42%
May 17	23°C	16°C	25°C 2003	10°C 1998	42%
May 18	23°C	16°C	25°C 2003	10°C 1998	43%
May 19	23°C	16°C	25°C 2001	11°C 1997	40%
May 20	23°C	16°C	26°C 2001	11°C 1997	38%
May 21	23°C	16°C	26°C 2001	13°C 1997	37%
May 22	23°C	15°C	26°C 2001	13°C 2008	36%
May 23	23°C	15°C	26°C 2001	13°C 2012	35%
May 24	23°C	15°C	26°C 2002	12°C 1995	36%
May 25	23°C	15°C	26°C 2002	13°C 1998	35%
May 26	23°C	15°C	27°C 2003	11°C 2004	35%
May 27	23°C	15°C	27°C 2003	12°C 1998	34%
May 28	23°C	15°C	26°C 2003	10°C 1998	34%
May 29	23°C	15°C	26°C 2003	11°C 1998	33%
May 30	23°C	15°C	26°C 2002	11°C 1998	30%
May 31	23°C	15°C	26°C 2002	11°C 2006	27%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT+3).

May 1: sunrise 6:36 AM, sunset 6:25 PM
May 31: sunrise 6:40 AM, sunset 6:21 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.