Climate averages 1991–2020
Ciudad del Carmen weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Ciudad del Carmen: daytime highs average 31.5°C and nights cool to about 26.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 45 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 00 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Villahermosa (138 km away). In May its highs average 34.8°C, 3.3°C warmer than Ciudad del Carmen, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Ciudad del Carmen ranks joint 53rd of 153 for the warmest May highs and joint 76th of 153 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 153 cities is 29.6°C; Ciudad del Carmen is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 30.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 45 mm to 173 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
Ciudad del Carmen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.6°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 44 | 7.6 | 11.111 h |
| February | 27.0°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 27 | 4.3 | 11.512 h |
| March | 28.8°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 17 | 3.3 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.8°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 18 | 3.6 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 31.5°C26.5°C | 26.5°C | 45 | 6.2 | 13.013 h |
| June | 30.6°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 173 | 16.6 | 13.213 h |
| July | 30.4°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 87 | 13.7 | 13.113 h |
| August | 30.2°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 151 | 18.3 | 12.813 h |
| September | 29.4°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 226 | 24.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 28.3°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 208 | 19.9 | 11.712 h |
| November | 26.9°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 101 | 12.1 | 11.311 h |
| December | 26.0°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 49 | 7.7 | 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
- Villahermosa in MayMexico · 138 kmHigh 34.8°C · Low 25.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Paraiso in MayMexico · 148 kmHigh 34.4°C · Low 25.9°C · 50 mm rain
- Cárdenas, Mexico in MayMexico · 178 kmHigh 34.1°C · Low 24.9°C · 84 mm rain
- Campeche in MayMexico · 191 kmHigh 35.3°C · Low 25.4°C · 50 mm rain
- San Cristóbal de las Casas in MayMexico · 230 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 13.0°C · 223 mm rain
- Tuxtla in MayMexico · 251 kmHigh 32.0°C · Low 22.2°C · 158 mm rain
- Comitán in MayMexico · 269 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 16.0°C · 154 mm rain
- Coatzacoalcos in MayMexico · 281 kmHigh 32.6°C · Low 25.1°C · 63 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 Ciudad del Carmen) is explained once on the Ciudad del Carmen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.