Climate · Kuwait City

Kuwait City in May

Very hot and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Kuwait City is very hot: highs near 101°F, lows near 78°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 33 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Kuwait City is very hot: highs near 38°C, lows near 26°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 33 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
101°F38°Caverage
Low
78°F26°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 1% of days
Daylight
13h 37mon average

Is May a good time to visit Kuwait City?


May sits outside Kuwait City's best months, which run in two parts: February to March, or December. Expect very hot days and rain on fewer than one day a week.

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 101°F in May, against 67°F to 113°F through the year.Highs near 38°C in May, against 19°C to 45°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

1% of days in May, against 0% to 14% through the year.

Cloud cover

23% cover in May, against 3% to 34% through the year.

Daylight

13h 37m in May, against 10h 17m to 14h 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.

Either side


  1. April89°32°low 67°low 19°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. May101°38°low 78°low 26°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June111°44°low 86°low 30°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Kuwait City sits, in May

Asia/Kuwait

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
4:56 AMsets 6:32 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
29.4°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
our one place here

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 9 km south of Kuwait City. Its own grid square is mostly sea and holds only a daily average, so the page reads the nearest square with a true high and low near the town's height. 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.