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Port Louis in May

Warm and damp, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Port Louis is warm: highs near 84°F, lows near 72°F. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 21 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Port Louis is warm: highs near 29°C, lows near 22°C. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 21 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
84°F29°Caverage
Low
72°F22°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 43% of days
Daylight
11h 10mon average

Is May a good time to visit Port Louis?

A good month, just outside Port Louis'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 84°F in May, against 79°F to 88°F through the year.Highs near 29°C in May, against 26°C to 31°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

43% of days in May, against 25% to 82% through the year.

Cloud cover

30% cover in May, against 24% to 64% through the year.

Daylight

11h 10m in May, against 10h 56m to 13h 20m 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. April87°31°low 75°low 24°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. May84°29°low 72°low 22°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June81°27°low 69°low 21°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.

Where Port Louis sits, in May

Indian/Mauritius
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:31 AMsets 5:41 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
20.2°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Centre de Flacq23 km east

The land around Port Louis, 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 Mauritius in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Port Louis. 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 (10 m) against the climate model's (258 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 (10 m) against the climate model's (258 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.