Climate averages 1991–2020
Ibagué weather
in May.
A warm, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Ibagué: daytime highs average 24.8°C and nights cool to about 18.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 339 mm of rain on roughly 30 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fusagasugá (94 km away). In May its highs average 21.2°C, 3.6°C cooler than Ibagué, with 204 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Ibagué ranks 30th of 46 for the warmest May highs and 40th of 46 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 46 cities is 25.9°C; Ibagué is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 339 mm to 211 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
Ibagué climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.5°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 108 | 16.6 | 11.912 h |
| February | 26.2°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 150 | 19.5 | 12.012 h |
| March | 25.9°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 304 | 25.9 | 12.112 h |
| April | 25.1°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 377 | 28.4 | 12.212 h |
| May, selected | 24.8°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 339 | 30.4 | 12.312 h |
| June | 25.0°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 211 | 28.4 | 12.412 h |
| July | 25.5°C18.7°C | 18.7°C | 174 | 27.5 | 12.412 h |
| August | 26.8°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 146 | 25.0 | 12.312 h |
| September | 26.9°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 217 | 26.7 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.3°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 310 | 28.7 | 12.012 h |
| November | 24.5°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 277 | 26.4 | 11.912 h |
| December | 24.9°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 142 | 19.7 | 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
- Fusagasugá in MayColombia · 94 kmHigh 21.2°C · Low 16.2°C · 204 mm rain
- Soacha in MayColombia · 110 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 11.8°C · 185 mm rain
- Bogotá in MayColombia · 126 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 11.6°C · 91 mm rain
- La Dorada in MayColombia · 127 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 119 mm rain
- Chía in MayColombia · 135 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 11.3°C · 96 mm rain
- Zipaquirá in MayColombia · 148 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 10.7°C · 154 mm rain
- Neiva in MayColombia · 168 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.4°C · 152 mm rain
- Yumbo in MayColombia · 172 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 18.9°C · 210 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 Ibagué) is explained once on the Ibagué year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.