Climate averages 1991–2020
Tigwav weather
in May.
A hot, 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 Tigwav: daytime highs average 30.8°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 134 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 59 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Miragoâne (24 km away). In May its highs average 30.9°C, about as warm as Tigwav, with 136 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Haiti, Tigwav ranks 6th of 18 for the warmest May highs and joint 9th of 18 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 18 cities is 30.2°C; Tigwav is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 31.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 134 mm to 93 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
Tigwav climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.2°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 20 | 4.7 | 11.211 h |
| February | 29.6°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 22 | 5.4 | 11.512 h |
| March | 30.0°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 44 | 8.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.5°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 80 | 14.0 | 12.513 h |
| May, selected | 30.8°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 134 | 18.7 | 13.013 h |
| June | 31.7°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 93 | 15.1 | 13.213 h |
| July | 32.2°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 89 | 15.7 | 13.113 h |
| August | 32.1°C26.6°C | 26.6°C | 111 | 18.0 | 12.813 h |
| September | 31.4°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 121 | 19.4 | 12.312 h |
| October | 30.6°C25.8°C | 25.8°C | 132 | 19.7 | 11.712 h |
| November | 29.7°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 75 | 12.5 | 11.311 h |
| December | 29.1°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 29 | 5.7 | 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
- Miragoâne in MayHaiti · 24 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 25.3°C · 136 mm rain
- Léogâne in MayHaiti · 26 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.1°C · 134 mm rain
- Jacmel in MayHaiti · 41 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 24.3°C · 131 mm rain
- Carrefour in MayHaiti · 50 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.0°C · 186 mm rain
- Arcahaie in MayHaiti · 53 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 24.0°C · 56 mm rain
- Port-au-Prince in MayHaiti · 57 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.8°C · 240 mm rain
- Cité Soleil in MayHaiti · 58 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 24.3°C · 240 mm rain
- Pétionville in MayHaiti · 62 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.1°C · 240 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 Tigwav) is explained once on the Tigwav year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Léogâne lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.