Winejok weather in May

In May, Winejok sees average daytime highs of 36°C and overnight lows near 26°C, with 82 mm of rain across 16.4 wet days and about 12.4 hours of daylight. It is the 4th-warmest and 6th-wettest month of the year here.

Highs ease over the month, from about 38°C in the first days to 35°C by the end. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 25% of the time in May, and the air most often feels muggy.

Daylight stretches from about 12 h 18 min at the start of May to 12 h 30 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Winejok's 8th-clearest and 6th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Winejok's year-round climate.

Daytime high
36°
4th warmest
Overnight low
26°
11th coldest
Rainfall
82 mm
16.4 wet days
Daylight
12 h 24 min
6:54 AM – 7:18 PM
Cloud cover
61%
8th clearest
Wind
9 km/h
6th windiest
Solar energy
5.89 kWh/m²
Travel score
1.6
out of 10

Winejok is city in Aweil East State, South Sudan.

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

Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Highs ease over the month, from about 38°C in the first days to 35°C by the end.

A typical May day in Winejok reaches about 36°C in the afternoon and slips back to 26°C overnight — a 10°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 33°C and 39°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs about 2°C cooler than April and about 3°C warmer than June.

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How May really feels in Winejok

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 31 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
31
25 feel dangerously hot (≥ 39°C)
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

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

Winejok weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 4th-warmest and 6th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan35° / 22°00.111.53.0
Feb37° / 23°10.211.71.7
Mar39° / 26°102.311.90.6
Apr39° / 27°317.712.20.7
May36° / 26°8216.412.41.6
Jun33° / 24°11518.812.52.6
Jul31° / 23°17022.412.53.3
Aug30° / 23°18524.212.33.4
Sep31° / 23°12820.612.13.3
Oct33° / 23°8416.311.83.2
Nov35° / 23°61.811.62.8
Dec35° / 22°10.111.53.0

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 25% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 24% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 51%. Skies tend to cloud over as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
15050
25050
35050
45050
55050
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75050
85149
95149
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Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Winejok gets around 82 mm of rain over 16.4 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 52% and peaks near 59% on the wettest days. The odds climb toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
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3159

Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

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

By dew point, May lands in the muggy band about 49% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 87% of them.

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Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
166214422
256214523
355204624
445194626
534184727
634174828
723164830
823154931
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1211125135
1311115235
1401105336
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160095536
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210075340
220065242
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Wind in May

Winds average 9 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 8 km/h on the calmest days to 9 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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318calm

Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 12 h 18 min at the start of May to 12 h 30 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 12 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 6:58 AM to 6:53 AM, and sunset from 7:16 PM to 7:22 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
112.36:587:16
212.36:577:16
312.36:577:16
412.36:577:17
512.36:567:17
612.36:567:17
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812.46:557:17
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Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 5.89 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 5.25 kWh/m² to a high of 6.84 kWh/m² in March across the year — May's 5.89 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
16.1Intense
26.1Intense
36.1Intense
46.1Intense
56.1Intense
66.0Intense
76.0Intense
86.0Intense
96.0Intense
106.0Bright
116.0Bright
126.0Bright
136.0Bright
145.9Bright
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Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Winejok

In seasonPeak

None of Winejok's seasonal hazards are active in May. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

Winejok's monsoon runs June–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Winejok sees seasonal dust haze (March), heaviest in March.

Monsoon
Dust
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Is May a good time to visit Winejok?

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

1.6
Sightseeing
10th-best month of the year
4.0
Beach & pool
10th-best month of the year

May is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Winejok.

What to pack for Winejok in May

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

In May, Winejok sees daytime highs around 36°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Winejok in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 11 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Winejok peaks around March 16 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 16UV 13Dec 11UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Air quality in Winejok 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 Winejok is worst in March — around 50 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 4.0× the cleanest month (August, 12 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateMar 1648 µg/m³Aug 1813 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan24Moderate
Feb34Moderate
Mar50Poor
Apr33Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug12Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct17Moderate
Nov28Moderate
Dec23Moderate
Location & terrain

Where is Winejok?

Winejok sits at 9.0°N, 27.6°E, 419 m above sea level, in South Sudan. The nearest listed city is Aweil, 34 km away.

GogrialKuacjokAbyeiWauAl MijladTonjBabanūsah

Topography around Winejok

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Winejok has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 6 m around an average of 419 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 14 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 126 m.

The land around Winejok is covered by grassland (91%) within 3 km, grassland (63%) within 16 km, and grassland (57%) and shrubs (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
6 m
16 km
14 m
80 km
126 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwetland
May weather nearby: Aweil 34 km · Gogrial 79 km · Kuacjok 91 km · Abyei 115 km · Wau 153 km · Al Mijlad 225 km · Tonj 228 km · Babanūsah 259 km

South Sudan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Prices
≈ 6% of US
price level, 2021
GDP per capita
$1,080
2015
Happiness
2.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2019
Homicide rate
14
per 100k, 2012
Road deaths
36.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Christian 61%folk religion 33%Muslim 6%

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 Winejok (9.0122°, 27.5708°, elevation 419 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).