Climate averages 1991–2020
Puerto Montt weather
in May.
A cool, very wet month: the 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a cool month in Puerto Montt: daytime highs average 12.5°C and nights cool to about 7.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 261 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 50 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Osorno (101 km away). In May its highs average 13.2°C, 0.6°C warmer than Puerto Montt, with 194 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Puerto Montt ranks 39th of 40 for the warmest May highs and 40th of 40 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 40 cities is 17.5°C; Puerto Montt is 5.0°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 2.3°C to 10.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 261 mm to 311 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
Puerto Montt climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 101 | 11.2 | 14.815 h |
| February | 18.8°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 100 | 9.4 | 13.714 h |
| March | 17.3°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 132 | 12.2 | 12.412 h |
| April | 14.6°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 184 | 15.5 | 11.011 h |
| May, selected | 12.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 261 | 18.2 | 9.810 h |
| June | 10.2°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 311 | 20.8 | 9.29 h |
| July | 9.6°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 276 | 20.1 | 9.59 h |
| August | 10.4°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 277 | 20.6 | 10.510 h |
| September | 12.0°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 185 | 17.4 | 11.812 h |
| October | 13.7°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 180 | 17.5 | 13.213 h |
| November | 15.3°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 151 | 15.4 | 14.414 h |
| December | 17.2°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 137 | 13.7 | 15.115 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
- Osorno in MayChile · 101 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 6.1°C · 194 mm rain
- San Carlos de Bariloche in MayArgentina · 141 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.8°C · 119 mm rain
- Valdivia in MayChile · 186 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 7.7°C · 257 mm rain
- Padre Las Casas in MayChile · 303 kmHigh 14.0°C · Low 6.1°C · 187 mm rain
- Temuco in MayChile · 305 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 6.4°C · 187 mm rain
- Los Ángeles in MayChile · 448 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 6.4°C · 178 mm rain
- Villa Mercedes, Chile in MayChile · 460 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 6.0°C · 245 mm rain
- Coronel in MayChile · 493 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 8.6°C · 175 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 Puerto Montt) is explained once on the Puerto Montt year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.