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Diani Beach in May
ok · worth considering · the wettest month of the year
The year in Diani Beach
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- JanJDiani Beach in January: sweet spot
- FebFDiani Beach in February: sweet spot
- MarMDiani Beach in March: good
- AprADiani Beach in April: ok
- MayMDiani Beach in May: ok
- JunJDiani Beach in June: good
- JulJDiani Beach in July: good
- AugADiani Beach in August: sweet spot
- SepSDiani Beach in September: good
- OctODiani Beach in October: good, busy
- NovNDiani Beach in November: ok, busy
- DecDDiani Beach in December: ok, busy
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 28°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 24°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 31°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 15 · 301 mm |
| Humidity | 83% |
| Sunshine | 8.9 h/day |
| Daylight | 11.9 h/day |
| Beach and sea | 16 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 28 °C, warm fair |
| Crowds | 100 / 100, higher is quieter |
Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.
Weather read at Diani Beach: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.
How busy it gets
Public holidays in May
Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.
Diani Beach in pictures
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Lebu Ayiga, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 28°C.
- Rain gear you will actually use: about 15 rainy days and 301 mm.
- Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
- Humidity averages 83%; breathable fabrics dry faster.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type G plugs at 240 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Kenyan shilling. UK Foreign Office: avoid all travel to parts, avoid all but essential travel to parts. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution (with regional advisories). US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for Kenya: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Diani Beach: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
May elsewhere
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