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Thimphu in May

Warm and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Thimphu is warm: highs near 70°F, lows near 44°F. Rain falls on almost every day, and the days lengthen by 31 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Thimphu is warm: highs near 21°C, lows near 7°C. Rain falls on almost every day, and the days lengthen by 31 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
70°F21°Caverage
Low
44°F7°Caverage
Wet days
7a week · 97% of days
Daylight
13h 30mon average

Is May a good time to visit Thimphu?

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

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 70°F in May, against 52°F to 75°F through the year.Highs near 21°C in May, against 11°C to 24°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

97% of days in May, against 59% to 100% through the year.

Cloud cover

51% cover in May, against 18% to 83% through the year.

Daylight

13h 30m in May, against 10h 26m 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. April65°18°low 37°low 3°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  2. May70°21°low 44°low 7°7 wet days a weekRain on almost every day.
  3. June74°23°low 52°low 11°7 wet days a weekRain on almost every day.

Where Thimphu sits, in May

Asia/Thimphu
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:13 AMsets 6:42 PM
Above the sea
2,350 mhigh country
Latitude
27.5°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Paro22 km west

The land around Thimphu, 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 Thimphu

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Thimphu. 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 (2,350 m) against the climate model's (3,389 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 (2,350 m) against the climate model's (3,389 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.