Weather in Mysuru in May

A hard month. May is a hard month in Mysuru, and worth planning around. You should expect rain on 16 days of the month, which is more days wet than dry.

May ranks 12 of 12 — near the bottom of Mysuru's year. December is the month that works, and the swing between the two is 43 points, which is a different holiday rather than a slightly better one.

Rain on 16 days, 3 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 32.9 °C days and 21.9 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 8 days clear 35 °C, so a serious heatwave is normal rather than notable. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest May day reached 40.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 18.9 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 48 mm — roughly 41% of the month's rain in one day.

May is moderately variable: 11 mm in the driest year against 251 mm in the wettest, around an average of 118 mm. Roughly two Mays in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind is light at 8.7 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 68%.

How May sits in the year

The month is on the way down: 2.8 °C cooler than April, with June dropping another 3.5 °C. The first week and the last are not the same trip. Rain has already shifted: 7 days more than April had.

Daylight in May

Mysuru sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.7 hours in May, against a range of just 1.4 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 20.5 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 757 m the air is thin enough to matter — sun that burns faster than the temperature suggests, and nights that cool off quickly.

How busy it gets

Off season. The genuine off season: cheapest by a distance, with the caveat that some tours and restaurants close entirely.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

May in Mysuru versus nearby

If Mysuru is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Bengaluru is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 2 days less rain. Coimbatore is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain.

So: May is a compromise. December is 43 points better and is what Mysuru is actually like at its best — worth moving the trip for if that is possible, and worth adjusting expectations for if it is not.

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