Climate averages 1991–2020
Cali weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Cali: daytime highs average 26.0°C and nights cool to about 19.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 210 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 16 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yumbo (17 km away). In May its highs average 25.0°C, 1.1°C cooler than Cali, with 210 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Cali ranks 27th of 46 for the warmest May highs and joint 22nd of 46 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 46 cities is 25.9°C; Cali is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 210 mm to 125 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
Cali climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 296 | 24.5 | 11.912 h |
| February | 26.0°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 263 | 23.7 | 12.012 h |
| March | 26.1°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 302 | 25.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 26.0°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 296 | 23.5 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 26.0°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 210 | 21.1 | 12.312 h |
| June | 26.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 125 | 15.4 | 12.312 h |
| July | 26.4°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 116 | 14.4 | 12.312 h |
| August | 26.6°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 143 | 15.4 | 12.212 h |
| September | 26.2°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 207 | 20.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.4°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 376 | 25.9 | 12.012 h |
| November | 24.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 463 | 27.1 | 12.012 h |
| December | 25.3°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 364 | 25.7 | 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
- Yumbo in MayColombia · 17 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 18.9°C · 210 mm rain
- Popayán in MayColombia · 111 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 14.7°C · 197 mm rain
- Neiva in MayColombia · 149 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.4°C · 152 mm rain
- Pitalito in MayColombia · 183 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 15.1°C · 307 mm rain
- Ibagué in MayColombia · 184 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 18.5°C · 339 mm rain
- Florencia in MayColombia · 226 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 18.6°C · 244 mm rain
- Quibdó in MayColombia · 252 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 23.0°C · 753 mm rain
- Fusagasugá in MayColombia · 260 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 16.2°C · 204 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 Cali) is explained once on the Cali year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Yumbo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.