Climate averages 1991–2020
Contagem weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 10th warmest and the 4th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Contagem: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 13.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 11 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ibirité (10 km away). In May its highs average 23.8°C, about as warm as Contagem, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Contagem ranks joint 311th of 448 for the warmest May highs and joint 63rd of 448 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 448 cities is 25.3°C; Contagem is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 22.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 31 mm to 9.7 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
Contagem climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.3°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 218 | 18.0 | 13.213 h |
| February | 26.9°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 120 | 13.0 | 12.813 h |
| March | 26.1°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 147 | 16.8 | 12.212 h |
| April | 25.2°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 55 | 9.8 | 11.712 h |
| May, selected | 23.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 31 | 5.0 | 11.211 h |
| June | 22.7°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 9.7 | 1.7 | 10.911 h |
| July | 23.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 4.7 | 0.8 | 11.011 h |
| August | 24.6°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 11 | 2.0 | 11.411 h |
| September | 26.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 47 | 6.5 | 12.012 h |
| October | 26.8°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 81 | 11.6 | 12.513 h |
| November | 25.5°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 184 | 18.2 | 13.013 h |
| December | 25.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 260 | 22.0 | 13.313 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
- Ibirité in MayBrazil · 10 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.0°C · 31 mm rain
- Belo Horizonte in MayBrazil · 12 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 13.9°C · 31 mm rain
- Betim in MayBrazil · 16 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 13.8°C · 37 mm rain
- Ribeirão das Neves in MayBrazil · 19 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 14.7°C · 26 mm rain
- Nova Lima in MayBrazil · 22 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 15.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Sabará in MayBrazil · 26 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 15.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Santa Luzia in MayBrazil · 28 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 15.1°C · 24 mm rain
- Vespasiano in MayBrazil · 30 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 15.4°C · 26 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 Contagem) is explained once on the Contagem year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Belo Horizonte and Ibirité lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.