Climate averages 1991–2020
Apartadó weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 6th 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 Apartadó: daytime highs average 29.4°C and nights cool to about 24.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 258 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 29 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chigorodó (25 km away). In May its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Apartadó, with 444 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Apartadó ranks 13th of 46 for the warmest May highs and 27th of 46 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 46 cities is 25.9°C; Apartadó is 3.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 258 mm to 245 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
Apartadó climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 75 | 19.8 | 11.712 h |
| February | 30.1°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 61 | 14.8 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.2°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 97 | 18.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.8°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 174 | 25.5 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 29.4°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 258 | 28.6 | 12.512 h |
| June | 29.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 245 | 27.8 | 12.613 h |
| July | 29.4°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 291 | 29.2 | 12.513 h |
| August | 29.5°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 253 | 29.2 | 12.412 h |
| September | 29.4°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 199 | 27.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 177 | 26.4 | 12.012 h |
| November | 28.8°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 179 | 24.3 | 11.812 h |
| December | 29.1°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 137 | 25.0 | 11.712 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
- Chigorodó in MayColombia · 25 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.1°C · 444 mm rain
- Montería in MayColombia · 127 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.8°C · 286 mm rain
- Montelíbano in MayColombia · 133 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.8°C · 224 mm rain
- Cereté in MayColombia · 144 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 262 mm rain
- Bello in MayColombia · 208 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 16.0°C · 337 mm rain
- Sincelejo in MayColombia · 208 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 23.1°C · 292 mm rain
- Medellín in MayColombia · 216 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 15.6°C · 337 mm rain
- Caldas in MayColombia · 227 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.8°C · 347 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 Apartadó) is explained once on the Apartadó year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.