Climate · Baku

Baku in May

Warm and mostly dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Baku is warm: highs near 73°F, lows near 58°F. Rain falls on about one day a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 51 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Baku is warm: highs near 23°C, lows near 14°C. Rain falls on about one day a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 51 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
73°F23°Caverage
Low
58°F14°Caverage
Wet days
1a week · 13% of days
Daylight
14h 25mon average

Is May a good time to visit Baku?


Yes. May is one of Baku's best months (May, or September to October).

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 73°F in May, against 49°F to 89°F through the year.Highs near 23°C in May, against 9°C to 32°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

13% of days in May, against 4% to 27% through the year.

Cloud cover

37% cover in May, against 10% to 56% through the year.

Daylight

14h 25m in May, against 9h 20m to 15h 00m 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.

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  1. April62°17°low 48°low 9°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. May73°23°low 58°low 14°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  3. June83°28°low 69°low 21°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Baku sits, in May

Asia/Baku

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:25 AMsets 7:48 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
40.4°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
our one place here

The land around Baku, 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. Baku is our one place in Azerbaijan so far. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Baku. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. 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.