Climate averages 1991–2020
Sincelejo weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Sincelejo: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 23.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 292 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 33 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cereté (64 km away). In May its highs average 30.2°C, 1.1°C warmer than Sincelejo, with 262 mm of rain.
Among the 46 cities listed in Colombia, Sincelejo ranks joint 17th of 46 for the warmest May highs and 32nd of 46 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 46 cities is 25.9°C; Sincelejo is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 292 mm to 267 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
Sincelejo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.8°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 30 | 7.9 | 11.612 h |
| February | 32.5°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 34 | 7.9 | 11.812 h |
| March | 32.0°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 74 | 15.0 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.2°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 180 | 25.2 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 29.1°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 292 | 29.4 | 12.513 h |
| June | 29.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 267 | 28.1 | 12.713 h |
| July | 29.4°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 244 | 27.5 | 12.613 h |
| August | 29.2°C22.9°C | 22.9°C | 252 | 28.3 | 12.412 h |
| September | 28.8°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 250 | 29.2 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.4°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 249 | 29.6 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.3°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 189 | 27.3 | 11.712 h |
| December | 29.1°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 92 | 18.6 | 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
- Cereté in MayColombia · 64 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 262 mm rain
- Magangué in MayColombia · 70 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 25.0°C · 288 mm rain
- Montería in MayColombia · 82 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.8°C · 286 mm rain
- Cartagena in MayColombia · 122 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 25.2°C · 181 mm rain
- Montelíbano in MayColombia · 147 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 23.8°C · 224 mm rain
- Sabanalarga in MayColombia · 156 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.8°C · 208 mm rain
- Soledad in MayColombia · 192 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 25.8°C · 166 mm rain
- Barranquilla in MayColombia · 197 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 26.0°C · 166 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 Sincelejo) is explained once on the Sincelejo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.