Climate averages 1991–2020
Curicó weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Curicó: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 7.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 126 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Talca (62 km away). In May its highs average 17.0°C, about as warm as Curicó, with 136 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Curicó ranks 22nd of 40 for the warmest May highs and 26th of 40 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 40 cities is 17.5°C; Curicó is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 14.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 126 mm to 206 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
Curicó climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.7°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 4.2 | 0.8 | 14.214 h |
| February | 28.0°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 6.5 | 1.0 | 13.413 h |
| March | 25.9°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 11 | 1.4 | 12.312 h |
| April | 21.2°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 50 | 3.7 | 11.211 h |
| May, selected | 17.3°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 126 | 7.5 | 10.310 h |
| June | 14.3°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 206 | 10.7 | 9.810 h |
| July | 13.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 146 | 9.4 | 10.010 h |
| August | 15.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 121 | 8.5 | 10.811 h |
| September | 17.4°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 68 | 7.1 | 11.812 h |
| October | 20.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 43 | 4.9 | 12.913 h |
| November | 24.0°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 18 | 2.7 | 13.914 h |
| December | 26.8°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 15 | 1.6 | 14.514 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
- Talca in MayChile · 62 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 7.4°C · 136 mm rain
- Rancagua in MayChile · 101 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 5.4°C · 99 mm rain
- Paine in MayChile · 138 kmHigh 19.8°C · Low 6.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Peñaflor in MayChile · 157 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 69 mm rain
- San Antonio, Chile in MayChile · 158 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 9.6°C · 61 mm rain
- San Bernardo in MayChile · 162 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 5.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Puente Alto in MayChile · 164 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 5.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Maipú in MayChile · 169 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 6.7°C · 62 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 Curicó) is explained once on the Curicó year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.