ClimateExplore the planning map
Climate · Suva

Suva in May

Warm and wet, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Suva is warm: highs near 82°F, lows near 73°F. Rain falls on about five days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 18 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Suva is warm: highs near 28°C, lows near 23°C. Rain falls on about five days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 18 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
82°F28°Caverage
Low
73°F23°Caverage
Wet days
5a week · 72% of days
Daylight
11h 16mon average

Is May a good time to visit Suva?

A good month, just outside Suva'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 82°F in May, against 79°F to 86°F through the year.Highs near 28°C in May, against 26°C to 30°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

72% of days in May, against 56% to 94% through the year.

Cloud cover

62% cover in May, against 49% to 77% through the year.

Daylight

11h 16m in May, against 11h 04m to 13h 12m 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. April85°29°low 75°low 24°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  2. May82°28°low 73°low 23°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  3. June81°27°low 72°low 22°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Suva sits, in May

Pacific/Fiji
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:24 AMsets 5:41 PM
Above the sea
50 mlow-lying
Latitude
18.1°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Yaukuve Levu Island74 km south

The land around Suva, 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 Fiji in May

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

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