Climate averages 1991–2020
Arcahaie weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 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 Arcahaie: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 24.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cité Soleil (28 km away). In May its highs average 31.3°C, 1.0°C warmer than Arcahaie, with 240 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Haiti, Arcahaie ranks joint 9th of 18 for the warmest May highs and 2nd of 18 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 18 cities is 30.2°C; Arcahaie is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 31.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 56 mm to 37 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
Arcahaie climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.2°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 7.4 | 1.8 | 11.111 h |
| February | 29.5°C21.5°C | 21.5°C | 7.8 | 2.0 | 11.512 h |
| March | 29.7°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 15 | 4.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.0°C23.1°C | 23.1°C | 27 | 7.1 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 30.3°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 56 | 12.2 | 13.013 h |
| June | 31.3°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 37 | 7.5 | 13.213 h |
| July | 32.1°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 21 | 4.7 | 13.113 h |
| August | 31.9°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 36 | 5.7 | 12.813 h |
| September | 31.1°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 43 | 8.3 | 12.312 h |
| October | 30.2°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 48 | 9.1 | 11.712 h |
| November | 29.5°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 25 | 4.7 | 11.311 h |
| December | 29.2°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 8.3 | 1.7 | 11.011 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
- Cité Soleil in MayHaiti · 28 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 24.3°C · 240 mm rain
- Carrefour in MayHaiti · 29 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.0°C · 186 mm rain
- Port-au-Prince in MayHaiti · 31 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.8°C · 240 mm rain
- Léogâne in MayHaiti · 32 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.1°C · 134 mm rain
- Croix-des-Bouquets in MayHaiti · 37 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.2°C · 240 mm rain
- Pétionville in MayHaiti · 37 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.1°C · 240 mm rain
- Saint-Marc in MayHaiti · 43 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.7°C · 73 mm rain
- Tigwav in MayHaiti · 53 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 25.5°C · 134 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 Arcahaie) is explained once on the Arcahaie year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.