Climate averages 1991–2020
Quilicura weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Quilicura: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 25 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Santiago (12 km away). In May its highs average 18.4°C, about as warm as Quilicura, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 40 cities listed in Chile, Quilicura ranks 16th of 40 for the warmest May highs and joint 23rd of 40 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 40 cities is 17.5°C; Quilicura is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 3.2°C to 15.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 81 mm to 116 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
Quilicura climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.5°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 7.7 | 2.0 | 14.114 h |
| February | 28.1°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 8.9 | 1.8 | 13.313 h |
| March | 26.5°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 14 | 1.9 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.4°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 38 | 3.8 | 11.311 h |
| May, selected | 18.7°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 81 | 7.1 | 10.410 h |
| June | 15.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 116 | 8.0 | 10.010 h |
| July | 14.7°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 96 | 8.3 | 10.210 h |
| August | 16.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 99 | 9.2 | 10.911 h |
| September | 18.0°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 77 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| October | 20.5°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 59 | 8.5 | 12.913 h |
| November | 23.9°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 28 | 4.7 | 13.814 h |
| December | 26.7°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 13 | 2.2 | 14.314 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
- Santiago in MayChile · 12 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 6.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Maipú in MayChile · 17 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 6.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Lampa in MayChile · 18 kmHigh 20.2°C · Low 9.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Colina in MayChile · 19 kmHigh 19.7°C · Low 8.8°C · 81 mm rain
- Peñalolén in MayChile · 20 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 6.0°C · 79 mm rain
- San Bernardo in MayChile · 25 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 5.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Puente Alto in MayChile · 30 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 5.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Peñaflor in MayChile · 30 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 6.8°C · 69 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 Quilicura) is explained once on the Quilicura year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Colina lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.