Rafsanjān weather in May

In May, Rafsanjān sees average daytime highs of 32°C and overnight lows near 18°C, with 2 mm of rain across 0.7 wet days and about 13.5 hours of daylight. It is the 5th-warmest and 7th-wettest month of the year here.

Highs climb over the month, from about 29°C in the first days to 34°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 73% of the time in May, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 13 h 12 min at the start of May to 13 h 48 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Rafsanjān's 7th-clearest and 5th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Rafsanjān's year-round climate.

Daytime high: 32°; 5th warmest
Overnight low: 18°; 9th coldest
Rainfall: 2 mm; 0.7 wet days
Daylight: 13 h 30 min; 4:56 AM – 6:28 PM
Cloud cover: 27%; 7th clearest
Wind: 10 km/h; 5th windiest
Solar energy: 7.77 kWh/m²
Travel score: 5.4; out of 10

Rafsanjān is city in Kerman Province, Iran.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

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Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs climb over the month, from about 29°C in the first days to 34°C by the end.

A typical May day in Rafsanjān reaches about 32°C in the afternoon and slips back to 18°C overnight — a 14°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 28°C and 35°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs about 5°C warmer than April and about 5°C cooler than June.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Avg high (°C)	29	29	30	30	30	30	30	30	31	31	31	31	31	31	32	32	32	32	32	32	33	33	33	33	33	34	34	34	34	34	35
Avg low (°C)	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	20	20	20

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	29	15
2	29	15
3	30	16
4	30	16
5	30	16
6	30	16
7	30	16
8	30	16
9	31	16
10	31	17
11	31	17
12	31	17
13	31	17
14	31	17
15	32	17
16	32	18
17	32	18
18	32	18
19	32	18
20	32	18
21	33	18
22	33	19
23	33	19
24	33	19
25	33	19
26	34	19
27	34	19
28	34	19
29	34	20
30	34	20
31	35	20

How May really feels in Rafsanjān

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 14 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C

heat index over the day's high

Days feeling ≤ 0°C

wind chill below the day's low

The story in May is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Rafsanjān weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 5th-warmest and 7th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

Month	High / Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm)	Wet days	Snow days	Daylight (hours)	Travel score
Jan	14° / 1°	14	3.3	0.9	10.3	5.1
Feb	17° / 4°	16	3.7	0.3	10.9	6.5
Mar	21° / 8°	13	3.9	0	11.8	7.8
Apr	26° / 13°	8	1.8	0	12.7	8.0
May	32° / 18°	2	0.7	0	13.5	5.4
Jun	37° / 22°	0	0	0	13.9	2.4
Jul	38° / 23°	0	0.1	0	13.8	1.5
Aug	36° / 21°	0	0.1	0	13.1	2.7
Sep	33° / 17°	0	0	0	12.2	5.0
Oct	27° / 11°	1	0.4	0	11.3	8.5
Nov	20° / 6°	6	1.3	0.1	10.5	8.3
Dec	16° / 2°	12	1.9	0.3	10.1	6.5

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 73% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 14% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 14%. Skies tend to open up as the month goes on.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Clearer (%)	75	75	76	77	78	78	78	80	80	81	82	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	91	91	93	93	93	94	95	95	96	97
Cloudier (%)	25	25	24	23	22	22	22	20	20	19	18	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	9	9	7	7	7	6	5	5	4	3

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	75	25
2	75	25
3	76	24
4	77	23
5	78	22
6	78	22
7	78	22
8	80	20
9	80	20
10	81	19
11	82	18
12	82	18
13	83	17
14	84	16
15	85	15
16	86	14
17	87	13
18	88	12
19	89	11
20	90	10
21	91	9
22	91	9
23	91	9
24	93	7
25	93	7
26	93	7
27	94	6
28	95	5
29	95	5
30	96	4
31	97	3

Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Rafsanjān gets around 2 mm of rain over 0.7 wet days in May. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 2% and peaks near 5% on the wettest days.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Rain chance (%)	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0

	Rain chance (%)
1	5
2	4
3	4
4	4
5	4
6	4
7	3
8	3
9	3
10	3
11	3
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	2
17	2
18	2
19	2
20	2
21	2
22	1
23	1
24	1
25	1
26	1
27	1
28	1
29	0
30	0
31	0

Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of May feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, May lands in the dry band about 100% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Dry (%)	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100

Wind in May

Winds average 10 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 9 km/h on the calmest days to 11 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Wind speed (km/h)	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Feels	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm	calm

	Wind speed (km/h)	Feels
1	11	calm
2	11	calm
3	11	calm
4	11	calm
5	11	calm
6	10	calm
7	10	calm
8	10	calm
9	10	calm
10	10	calm
11	10	calm
12	10	calm
13	10	calm
14	10	calm
15	10	calm
16	10	calm
17	10	calm
18	10	calm
19	10	calm
20	10	calm
21	10	calm
22	10	calm
23	10	calm
24	9	calm
25	9	calm
26	9	calm
27	9	calm
28	9	calm
29	9	calm
30	9	calm
31	9	calm

Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 13 h 12 min at the start of May to 13 h 48 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 36 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 5:08 AM to 4:49 AM, and sunset from 6:18 PM to 6:37 PM.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Daylight (h)	13.2	13.2	13.2	13.2	13.3	13.3	13.3	13.3	13.4	13.4	13.4	13.4	13.5	13.5	13.5	13.5	13.6	13.6	13.6	13.6	13.6	13.7	13.7	13.7	13.7	13.7	13.7	13.8	13.8	13.8	13.8
Sunrise (AM)	5:08	5:07	5:06	5:06	5:05	5:04	5:03	5:02	5:01	5:01	5:00	4:59	4:58	4:58	4:57	4:56	4:56	4:55	4:55	4:54	4:53	4:53	4:52	4:52	4:52	4:51	4:51	4:50	4:50	4:50	4:49
Sunset (PM)	6:18	6:19	6:19	6:20	6:21	6:21	6:22	6:23	6:24	6:24	6:25	6:26	6:26	6:27	6:28	6:28	6:29	6:29	6:30	6:31	6:31	6:32	6:33	6:33	6:34	6:35	6:35	6:36	6:36	6:37	6:37

	Daylight (h)	Sunrise (AM)	Sunset (PM)
1	13.2	5:08	6:18
2	13.2	5:07	6:19
3	13.2	5:06	6:19
4	13.2	5:06	6:20
5	13.3	5:05	6:21
6	13.3	5:04	6:21
7	13.3	5:03	6:22
8	13.3	5:02	6:23
9	13.4	5:01	6:24
10	13.4	5:01	6:24
11	13.4	5:00	6:25
12	13.4	4:59	6:26
13	13.5	4:58	6:26
14	13.5	4:58	6:27
15	13.5	4:57	6:28
16	13.5	4:56	6:28
17	13.6	4:56	6:29
18	13.6	4:55	6:29
19	13.6	4:55	6:30
20	13.6	4:54	6:31
21	13.6	4:53	6:31
22	13.7	4:53	6:32
23	13.7	4:52	6:33
24	13.7	4:52	6:33
25	13.7	4:52	6:34
26	13.7	4:51	6:35
27	13.7	4:51	6:35
28	13.8	4:50	6:36
29	13.8	4:50	6:36
30	13.8	4:50	6:37
31	13.8	4:49	6:37

Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 7.77 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 3.62 kWh/m² to a high of 8.01 kWh/m² in June across the year — May's 7.77 kWh/m² sits near the top of that range.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Solar energy (kWh/m²)	7.4	7.4	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.6	7.6	7.6	7.7	7.7	7.7	7.7	7.8	7.8	7.8	7.8	7.9	7.9	7.9	7.9	7.9	8.0	8.0	8.0	8.0	8.0	8.0	8.1	8.1
Level	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense	Intense

	Solar energy (kWh/m²)	Level
1	7.4	Intense
2	7.4	Intense
3	7.5	Intense
4	7.5	Intense
5	7.5	Intense
6	7.5	Intense
7	7.5	Intense
8	7.6	Intense
9	7.6	Intense
10	7.6	Intense
11	7.7	Intense
12	7.7	Intense
13	7.7	Intense
14	7.7	Intense
15	7.8	Intense
16	7.8	Intense
17	7.8	Intense
18	7.8	Intense
19	7.9	Intense
20	7.9	Intense
21	7.9	Intense
22	7.9	Intense
23	7.9	Intense
24	8.0	Intense
25	8.0	Intense
26	8.0	Intense
27	8.0	Intense
28	8.0	Intense
29	8.0	Intense
30	8.1	Intense
31	8.1	Intense

Planning a trip in May

Is May a good time to visit Rafsanjān?

Our two travel scores rate May for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

5.4

Sightseeing

7th-best month of the year

8.3

Beach & pool

3rd-best month of the year

May is a reasonable time to visit Rafsanjān for sightseeing. The water and warmth also suit a beach or pool day.

What to pack for Rafsanjān in May

From May's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In May, Rafsanjān sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

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UV index in Rafsanjān in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 10 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Rafsanjān peaks around June 17 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 4 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
UV index (midday)	4	7	9	8	10	11	11	11	10	7	5	4
Level	Moderate	High	Very high	Very high	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Extreme	Very high	Very high	Moderate	Moderate

	UV index (midday)	Level
Jan	4	Moderate
Feb	7	High
Mar	9	Very high
Apr	8	Very high
May	10	Extreme
Jun	11	Extreme
Jul	11	Extreme
Aug	11	Extreme
Sep	10	Very high
Oct	7	Very high
Nov	5	Moderate
Dec	4	Moderate

Air quality in Rafsanjān in May

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where May falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Rafsanjān is worst in April — around 34 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (November, 19 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
PM2.5 (µg/m³)	20	25	27	34	32	25	28	20	23	23	19	19
Level	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate	Moderate

	PM2.5 (µg/m³)	Level
Jan	20	Moderate
Feb	25	Moderate
Mar	27	Moderate
Apr	34	Moderate
May	32	Moderate
Jun	25	Moderate
Jul	28	Moderate
Aug	20	Moderate
Sep	23	Moderate
Oct	23	Moderate
Nov	19	Moderate
Dec	19	Moderate

Location & terrain

Where is Rafsanjān?

Rafsanjān sits at 30.4°N, 56.0°E, 1,514 m above sea level, in Iran. The nearest listed city is Zarand, 71 km away.

Topography around Rafsanjān

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Rafsanjān.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Rafsanjān has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 38 m around an average of 1,516 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 301 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,231 m.

The land around Rafsanjān is covered by artificial surfaces (73%) within 3 km, bare terrain (61%) and cropland (31%) within 16 km, and bare terrain (86%) within 80 km.

3 km

38 m

artificial surfaces 73%

16 km

301 m

bare terrain 61%

80 km

2,231 m

bare terrain 86%

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← April Rafsanjān year-round climate June →Best places to visit in May

May weather nearby: Zarand 71 km · Bardsīr 78 km · Anār 86 km · Shahr-e Bābak 90 km · Kerman 105 km · Sirjan 110 km · Najafshahr 117 km · Rāvar 123 km

Iran travel facts

Travel advisory: Level 4; Do Not Travel
Power plugs: Type C / F; 220 V · 50 Hz
Prices: ≈ 352% of US; price level, 2025
GDP per capita: $3,924; 2025
Happiness: 5.2 / 10; World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water: 94%; of population, 2024
Homicide rate: 2.4; per 100k, 2014
Road deaths: 21.5; per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group: Upper middle; World Bank
English: Low; EF EPI 492
Religion

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Rafsanjān (30.4067°, 55.9939°, elevation 1,514 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	29	15
2	29	15
3	30	16
4	30	16
5	30	16
6	30	16
7	30	16
8	30	16
9	31	16
10	31	17
11	31	17
12	31	17
13	31	17
14	31	17
15	32	17
16	32	18
17	32	18
18	32	18
19	32	18
20	32	18
21	33	18
22	33	19
23	33	19
24	33	19
25	33	19
26	34	19
27	34	19
28	34	19
29	34	20
30	34	20
31	35	20

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	75	25
2	75	25
3	76	24
4	77	23
5	78	22
6	78	22
7	78	22
8	80	20
9	80	20
10	81	19
11	82	18
12	82	18
13	83	17
14	84	16
15	85	15
16	86	14
17	87	13
18	88	12
19	89	11
20	90	10
21	91	9
22	91	9
23	91	9
24	93	7
25	93	7
26	93	7
27	94	6
28	95	5
29	95	5
30	96	4
31	97	3

	Rain chance (%)
1	5
2	4
3	4
4	4
5	4
6	4
7	3
8	3
9	3
10	3
11	3
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	2
17	2
18	2
19	2
20	2
21	2
22	1
23	1
24	1
25	1
26	1
27	1
28	1
29	0
30	0
31	0

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	29	15
2	29	15
3	30	16
4	30	16
5	30	16
6	30	16
7	30	16
8	30	16
9	31	16
10	31	17
11	31	17
12	31	17
13	31	17
14	31	17
15	32	17
16	32	18
17	32	18
18	32	18
19	32	18
20	32	18
21	33	18
22	33	19
23	33	19
24	33	19
25	33	19
26	34	19
27	34	19
28	34	19
29	34	20
30	34	20
31	35	20

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	75	25
2	75	25
3	76	24
4	77	23
5	78	22
6	78	22
7	78	22
8	80	20
9	80	20
10	81	19
11	82	18
12	82	18
13	83	17
14	84	16
15	85	15
16	86	14
17	87	13
18	88	12
19	89	11
20	90	10
21	91	9
22	91	9
23	91	9
24	93	7
25	93	7
26	93	7
27	94	6
28	95	5
29	95	5
30	96	4
31	97	3

	Rain chance (%)
1	5
2	4
3	4
4	4
5	4
6	4
7	3
8	3
9	3
10	3
11	3
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	2
17	2
18	2
19	2
20	2
21	2
22	1
23	1
24	1
25	1
26	1
27	1
28	1
29	0
30	0
31	0

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100

	Avg high (°C)	Avg low (°C)
1	29	15
2	29	15
3	30	16
4	30	16
5	30	16
6	30	16
7	30	16
8	30	16
9	31	16
10	31	17
11	31	17
12	31	17
13	31	17
14	31	17
15	32	17
16	32	18
17	32	18
18	32	18
19	32	18
20	32	18
21	33	18
22	33	19
23	33	19
24	33	19
25	33	19
26	34	19
27	34	19
28	34	19
29	34	20
30	34	20
31	35	20

	Clearer (%)	Cloudier (%)
1	75	25
2	75	25
3	76	24
4	77	23
5	78	22
6	78	22
7	78	22
8	80	20
9	80	20
10	81	19
11	82	18
12	82	18
13	83	17
14	84	16
15	85	15
16	86	14
17	87	13
18	88	12
19	89	11
20	90	10
21	91	9
22	91	9
23	91	9
24	93	7
25	93	7
26	93	7
27	94	6
28	95	5
29	95	5
30	96	4
31	97	3

	Rain chance (%)
1	5
2	4
3	4
4	4
5	4
6	4
7	3
8	3
9	3
10	3
11	3
12	2
13	2
14	2
15	2
16	2
17	2
18	2
19	2
20	2
21	2
22	1
23	1
24	1
25	1
26	1
27	1
28	1
29	0
30	0
31	0

	Dry (%)
1	100
2	100
3	100
4	100
5	100
6	100
7	100
8	100
9	100
10	100
11	100
12	100
13	100
14	100
15	100
16	100
17	100
18	100
19	100
20	100
21	100
22	100
23	100
24	100
25	100
26	100
27	100
28	100
29	100
30	100
31	100