Climate averages 1991–2020
Vitória de Santo Antão weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Vitória de Santo Antão: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 22.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 86 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 45 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Carpina (30 km away). In May its highs average 27.9°C, about as warm as Vitória de Santo Antão, with 85 mm of rain.
Among the 448 cities listed in Brazil, Vitória de Santo Antão ranks joint 110th of 448 for the warmest May highs and joint 271st of 448 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 448 cities is 25.3°C; Vitória de Santo Antão is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.3°C to 26.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 86 mm to 91 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
Vitória de Santo Antão climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.0°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 49 | 14.8 | 12.513 h |
| February | 30.1°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 56 | 15.4 | 12.412 h |
| March | 30.1°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 73 | 17.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 29.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 85 | 18.4 | 11.912 h |
| May, selected | 28.1°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 86 | 19.2 | 11.712 h |
| June | 26.8°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 91 | 18.9 | 11.712 h |
| July | 26.1°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 78 | 18.8 | 11.712 h |
| August | 26.3°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 44 | 14.6 | 11.812 h |
| September | 27.4°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 31 | 11.8 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.8°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 23 | 8.8 | 12.312 h |
| November | 29.7°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 21 | 7.7 | 12.512 h |
| December | 30.1°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 29 | 11.2 | 12.613 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
- Carpina in MayBrazil · 30 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 22.0°C · 85 mm rain
- Jaboatão dos Guararapes in MayBrazil · 30 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 23.5°C · 114 mm rain
- Gravatá in MayBrazil · 31 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 20.9°C · 101 mm rain
- Cabo de Santo Agostinho in MayBrazil · 34 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 23.8°C · 166 mm rain
- Camaragibe in MayBrazil · 36 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 23.4°C · 114 mm rain
- Ipojuca in MayBrazil · 40 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 23.4°C · 160 mm rain
- Recife in MayBrazil · 46 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 114 mm rain
- Paulista in MayBrazil · 50 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 146 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 Vitória de Santo Antão) is explained once on the Vitória de Santo Antão year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.