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Ningaloo in May

Hot and dry, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Ningaloo is hot: highs near 85°F, lows near 69°F. Rain falls on about one day a week, and the days shorten by 23 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Ningaloo is hot: highs near 29°C, lows near 21°C. Rain falls on about one day a week, and the days shorten by 23 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
85°F29°Caverage
Low
69°F21°Caverage
Wet days
1a week · 10% of days
Daylight
11h 04mon average

Is May a good time to visit Ningaloo?

A good month, just outside Ningaloo's best months, which run from June to August.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 85°F in May, against 77°F to 94°F through the year.Highs near 29°C in May, against 25°C to 34°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

10% of days in May, against 1% to 16% through the year.

Cloud cover

29% cover in May, against 13% to 43% through the year.

Daylight

11h 04m in May, against 10h 48m to 13h 28m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. April91°33°low 74°low 23°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. May85°29°low 69°low 21°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  3. June79°26°low 64°low 18°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.

Where Ningaloo sits, in May

Australia/Perth
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:48 AMsets 5:53 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
22.1°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Durack1628 km east

The land around Ningaloo, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Australia in May

high · low · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Ningaloo

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Ningaloo. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (0 m) against the climate model's (100 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (0 m) against the climate model's (100 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.