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Nizwa in May

Hot and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Nizwa is hot: highs near 89°F, lows near 70°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 25 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Nizwa is hot: highs near 32°C, lows near 21°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 25 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
89°F32°Caverage
Low
70°F21°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 7% of days
Daylight
13h 15mon average

Is May a good time to visit Nizwa?

May sits outside Nizwa's best months, which run in two parts: March to April, or October to November. Expect 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 89°F in May, against 65°F to 94°F through the year.Highs near 32°C in May, against 18°C to 34°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

7% of days in May, against 1% to 12% through the year.

Cloud cover

21% cover in May, against 15% to 57% through the year.

Daylight

13h 15m in May, against 10h 44m to 13h 32m 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. April82°28°low 63°low 17°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.
  2. May89°32°low 70°low 21°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June94°34°low 74°low 23°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Nizwa sits, in May

Asia/Muscat
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:29 AMsets 6:43 PM
Above the sea
2,000 mhigh country
Latitude
23.1°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Muscat120 km north-east

The land around Nizwa, 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 Oman in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Nizwa. 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 (2,000 m) against the climate model's (1,449 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 (2,000 m) against the climate model's (1,449 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.