Climate averages 1991–2020
Ipiales weather
in May.
A mild, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Ipiales: daytime highs average 15.7°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 200 mm of rain on roughly 30 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tulcán (9 km away). In May its highs average 16.2°C, about as warm as Ipiales, with 200 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Ipiales ranks 46th of 46 for the warmest May highs and 19th of 46 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 46 cities is 25.9°C; Ipiales is 10.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 14.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 200 mm to 160 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
Ipiales climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 220 | 27.5 | 12.112 h |
| February | 16.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 207 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| March | 16.3°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 251 | 29.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 16.1°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 258 | 29.2 | 12.112 h |
| May, selected | 15.7°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 200 | 29.8 | 12.212 h |
| June | 14.8°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 160 | 27.4 | 12.212 h |
| July | 14.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 147 | 27.0 | 12.212 h |
| August | 14.7°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 94 | 22.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 15.7°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 109 | 21.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 16.3°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 230 | 27.4 | 12.112 h |
| November | 16.4°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 290 | 28.0 | 12.112 h |
| December | 16.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 269 | 29.1 | 12.112 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
- Tulcán in MayEcuador · 9 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 9.8°C · 200 mm rain
- Pasto in MayColombia · 59 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 11.3°C · 181 mm rain
- Ibarra in MayEcuador · 76 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 11.5°C · 160 mm rain
- Tumaco in MayColombia · 167 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 24.4°C · 404 mm rain
- Santo Domingo de los Colorados in MayEcuador · 209 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 20.0°C · 252 mm rain
- Pitalito in MayColombia · 210 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 15.1°C · 307 mm rain
- Popayán in MayColombia · 213 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 14.7°C · 197 mm rain
- Esmeraldas in MayEcuador · 224 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 23.9°C · 149 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 Ipiales) is explained once on the Ipiales year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Tulcán lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.