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Photo by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Kruger National Park in May
sweet spot · one of the best months to go
The year in Kruger National Park
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- JanJKruger National Park in January: ok, busy
- FebFKruger National Park in February: ok, busy
- MarMKruger National Park in March: good, busy
- AprAKruger National Park in April: good
- MayMKruger National Park in May: sweet spot
- JunJKruger National Park in June: sweet spot
- JulJKruger National Park in July: sweet spot
- AugAKruger National Park in August: good
- SepSKruger National Park in September: sweet spot
- OctOKruger National Park in October: sweet spot
- NovNKruger National Park in November: sweet spot
- DecDKruger National Park in December: good
- Sweet spot
- Good
- OK
- Avoid
- Busy
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The numbers
| Daily high | 27°C |
|---|---|
| Nightly low | 15°C |
| Feels like, afternoon | 27°C |
| Rainy days, 1 mm or more | 2 · 20 mm |
| Humidity | 67% |
| Sunshine | 9.6 h/day |
| Daylight | 10.9 h/day |
| Crowds | 99 / 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 Skukuza rest camp: 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 and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.
Kruger National Park in pictures
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Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What to pack
- Summer clothes by day, highs around 27°C.
- A layer for the evening: 27°C by day, 15°C at night.
- Sun protection: about 10 hours of sunshine a day.
Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.
Before you go
Type C and D plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Rand. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Global Affairs Canada: Exercise a high degree of caution. US State Department: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution. Everything for South Africa: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.
On arrival in Kruger National Park: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.
May elsewhere
In May from
The other months at Kruger National Park
- January ok
- February ok
- March good
- April good
- May
- June sweet spot
- July sweet spot
- August good
- September sweet spot
- October sweet spot
- November sweet spot
- December good
← April · All twelve months at Kruger National Park · June →
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