Climate averages 1991–2020
Bogotá weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: one of the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Bogotá: daytime highs average 18.0°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Soacha (15 km away). In May its highs average 18.2°C, about as warm as Bogotá, with 185 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Bogotá ranks 44th of 46 for the warmest May highs and 1st of 46 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 46 cities is 25.9°C; Bogotá is 7.9°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs stay level at 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 43 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
Bogotá climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 18.9°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 69 | 17.3 | 11.912 h |
| February | 19.1°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 90 | 18.3 | 12.012 h |
| March | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 132 | 22.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 18.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 140 | 21.5 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 18.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 91 | 18.1 | 12.312 h |
| June | 18.0°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 43 | 12.5 | 12.412 h |
| July | 18.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 37 | 11.7 | 12.412 h |
| August | 19.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 23 | 7.6 | 12.312 h |
| September | 19.6°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 33 | 10.8 | 12.112 h |
| October | 18.7°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 99 | 18.8 | 12.012 h |
| November | 18.3°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 127 | 22.2 | 11.912 h |
| December | 18.5°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 83 | 19.3 | 11.912 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
- Soacha in MayColombia · 15 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 11.8°C · 185 mm rain
- Chía in MayColombia · 28 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 11.3°C · 96 mm rain
- Fusagasugá in MayColombia · 44 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 16.2°C · 204 mm rain
- Zipaquirá in MayColombia · 47 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 10.7°C · 154 mm rain
- Villavicencio in MayColombia · 73 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 19.3°C · 167 mm rain
- La Dorada in MayColombia · 113 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 119 mm rain
- Ibagué in MayColombia · 126 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 18.5°C · 339 mm rain
- Sogamoso in MayColombia · 177 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 11.6°C · 135 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 Bogotá) is explained once on the Bogotá year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.