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Punakha in May

Warm and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Punakha is warm: highs near 79°F, lows near 57°F. Rain falls on almost every day, and the days lengthen by 31 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Punakha is warm: highs near 26°C, lows near 14°C. Rain falls on almost every day, and the days lengthen by 31 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
79°F26°Caverage
Low
57°F14°Caverage
Wet days
7a week · 97% of days
Daylight
13h 30mon average

Is May a good time to visit Punakha?

A good month, just outside Punakha's best months, which run from July 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 79°F in May, against 61°F to 81°F through the year.Highs near 26°C in May, against 16°C to 27°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

97% of days in May, against 77% to 100% through the year.

Cloud cover

46% cover in May, against 19% to 82% through the year.

Daylight

13h 30m in May, against 10h 25m to 13h 51m 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. April75°24°low 51°low 11°7 wet days a weekRain on almost every day.
  2. May79°26°low 57°low 14°7 wet days a weekRain on almost every day.
  3. June81°27°low 63°low 17°7 wet days a weekRain on almost every day.

Where Punakha sits, in May

Asia/Thimphu
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:12 AMsets 6:41 PM
Above the sea
1,240 mupland
Latitude
27.6°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Thimphu26 km south-west

The land around Punakha, 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 Bhutan in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Punakha. 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 (1,240 m) against the climate model's (1,872 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 (1,240 m) against the climate model's (1,872 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.