Climate averages 1991–2020
Aracaju weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Aracaju: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 23.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 185 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes May a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 37 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is São Cristóvão (19 km away). In May its highs average 27.2°C, about as warm as Aracaju, with 157 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Aracaju ranks joint 135th of 448 for the warmest May highs and 416th of 448 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 448 cities is 25.3°C; Aracaju is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 185 mm to 167 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Aracaju climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.1°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 52 | 14.1 | 12.713 h |
| February | 29.2°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 64 | 16.3 | 12.512 h |
| March | 29.3°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 77 | 17.9 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.5°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 131 | 20.3 | 11.912 h |
| May, selected | 27.3°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 185 | 23.5 | 11.612 h |
| June | 26.1°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 167 | 24.1 | 11.511 h |
| July | 25.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 138 | 24.1 | 11.512 h |
| August | 25.3°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 103 | 22.4 | 11.812 h |
| September | 26.2°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 67 | 17.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 27.3°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 60 | 14.1 | 12.312 h |
| November | 28.4°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 41 | 11.1 | 12.613 h |
| December | 29.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 30 | 9.2 | 12.713 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
May in nearby cities
- São Cristóvão in MayBrazil · 19 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 23.6°C · 157 mm rain
- Itabaiana in MayBrazil · 46 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 21.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Lagarto in MayBrazil · 63 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 21.8°C · 83 mm rain
- Arapiraca in MayBrazil · 136 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 21.5°C · 74 mm rain
- Alagoinhas in MayBrazil · 200 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 21.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Maceió in MayBrazil · 201 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 23.8°C · 177 mm rain
- Rio Largo in MayBrazil · 208 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 22.5°C · 149 mm rain
- Paulo Afonso in MayBrazil · 209 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 21.7°C · 30 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Aracaju) is explained once on the Aracaju year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.