Climate · Xaxaba

Xaxaba in May

Hot and dry, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Xaxaba is hot: highs near 86°F, lows near 57°F. Rain is rare, and the days shorten by 20 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Xaxaba is hot: highs near 30°C, lows near 14°C. Rain is rare, and the days shorten by 20 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
86°F30°Caverage
Low
57°F14°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 1% of days
Daylight
11h 13mon average

Is May a good time to visit Xaxaba?


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

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 86°F in May, against 80°F to 99°F through the year.Highs near 30°C in May, against 27°C to 37°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

1% of days in May, against 0% to 59% through the year.

Cloud cover

14% cover in May, against 7% to 69% through the year.

Daylight

11h 13m in May, against 10h 59m to 13h 16m 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. April88°31°low 63°low 17°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. May86°30°low 57°low 14°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June81°27°low 50°low 10°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Xaxaba sits, in May

Africa/Gaborone

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:48 AMsets 6:02 PM
Above the sea
965 mupland
Latitude
19.2°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Shorobe106 km north-east

The land around Xaxaba, 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 Botswana in May

high · low · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Xaxaba. 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.