Climate averages 1991–2020
Cereté weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Cereté: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 262 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes May a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 31 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Montería (18 km away). In May its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Cereté, with 286 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Cereté ranks joint 8th of 46 for the warmest May highs and 28th of 46 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 46 cities is 25.9°C; Cereté is 4.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs stay level at 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 262 mm to 246 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
Cereté climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31.2°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 27 | 7.0 | 11.712 h |
| February | 32.9°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 29 | 6.9 | 11.812 h |
| March | 32.8°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 61 | 13.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 31.3°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 162 | 24.0 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 30.2°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 262 | 29.1 | 12.513 h |
| June | 30.2°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 246 | 27.8 | 12.613 h |
| July | 30.2°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 240 | 27.7 | 12.613 h |
| August | 30.2°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 236 | 28.5 | 12.412 h |
| September | 29.9°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 233 | 28.9 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.7°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 229 | 29.5 | 11.912 h |
| November | 29.4°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 179 | 26.6 | 11.712 h |
| December | 29.8°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 89 | 18.3 | 11.612 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
- Montería in MayColombia · 18 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.8°C · 286 mm rain
- Sincelejo in MayColombia · 64 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 23.1°C · 292 mm rain
- Montelíbano in MayColombia · 109 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.8°C · 224 mm rain
- Magangué in MayColombia · 120 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 25.0°C · 288 mm rain
- Apartadó in MayColombia · 144 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 24.2°C · 258 mm rain
- Chigorodó in MayColombia · 167 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 23.1°C · 444 mm rain
- Cartagena in MayColombia · 171 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 181 mm rain
- Sabanalarga in MayColombia · 216 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.8°C · 208 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 Cereté) is explained once on the Cereté year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.