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Dodoma in May

Hot and dry, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Dodoma is hot: highs near 86°F, lows near 63°F. Rain is rare, and daylight holds at about 11 hours 50 minutes.May in Dodoma is hot: highs near 30°C, lows near 17°C. Rain is rare, and daylight holds at about 11 hours 50 minutes.

High
86°F30°Caverage
Low
63°F17°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 6% of days
Daylight
11h 50mon average

Is May a good time to visit Dodoma?

A good month, just outside Dodoma'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 86°F in May, against 83°F to 91°F through the year.Highs near 30°C in May, against 28°C to 33°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

6% of days in May, against 0% to 57% through the year.

Cloud cover

50% cover in May, against 32% to 78% through the year.

Daylight

11h 50m in May, against 11h 46m to 12h 28m 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. April86°30°low 65°low 18°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  2. May86°30°low 63°low 17°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June85°29°low 60°low 16°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Dodoma sits, in May

Africa/Dar es Salaam
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:38 AMsets 6:28 PM
Above the sea
1,120 mupland
Latitude
6.2°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Idodi188 km south-west

The land around Dodoma, 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 Tanzania in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Dodoma. 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 (1,120 m) against the climate model's (1,170 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 (1,120 m) against the climate model's (1,170 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.