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Nyungwe in May

Warm and wet, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Nyungwe is warm: highs near 76°F, lows near 59°F. Rain falls on about four days a week, less often as the month goes on, and daylight holds at about 12 hours.May in Nyungwe is warm: highs near 24°C, lows near 15°C. Rain falls on about four days a week, less often as the month goes on, and daylight holds at about 12 hours.

High
76°F24°Caverage
Low
59°F15°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 58% of days
Daylight
12h 00mon average

Is May a good time to visit Nyungwe?

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

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 76°F in May, against 75°F to 78°F through the year.Highs near 24°C in May, against 24°C to 26°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

58% of days in May, against 6% to 89% through the year.

Cloud cover

70% cover in May, against 52% to 79% through the year.

Daylight

12h 00m in May, against 11h 59m to 12h 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. April76°24°low 59°low 15°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  2. May76°24°low 59°low 15°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. June77°25°low 58°low 14°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.

Where Nyungwe sits, in May

Africa/Kigali
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:59 AMsets 6:00 PM
Above the sea
1,668 mhigh country
Latitude
2.4°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Musanze114 km north-east

The land around Nyungwe, 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 Rwanda in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Nyungwe. 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 (1,668 m) against the climate model's (1,745 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 (1,668 m) against the climate model's (1,745 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.