Climate averages 1991–2020
Tonalá weather
in May.
A hot, fairly dry month: the warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Tonalá: daytime highs average 31.1°C and nights cool to about 16.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 17 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 06 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tlaquepaque (6 km away). In May its highs average 31.8°C, 0.7°C warmer than Tonalá, with 18 mm of rain.
Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Tonalá ranks joint 60th of 153 for the warmest May highs and joint 36th of 153 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 153 cities is 29.6°C; Tonalá is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 3.1°C to 28.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 17 mm to 113 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
Tonalá climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.8°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 17 | 1.9 | 11.011 h |
| February | 25.0°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 11 | 1.7 | 11.511 h |
| March | 27.8°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 6.7 | 1.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 30.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 3.7 | 1.2 | 12.613 h |
| May, selected | 31.1°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 17 | 4.4 | 13.113 h |
| June | 28.0°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 113 | 18.1 | 13.413 h |
| July | 25.0°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 167 | 24.5 | 13.313 h |
| August | 24.8°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 145 | 22.9 | 12.813 h |
| September | 24.3°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 130 | 19.2 | 12.312 h |
| October | 24.5°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 43 | 8.1 | 11.712 h |
| November | 23.9°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 12 | 2.1 | 11.211 h |
| December | 23.1°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 5.7 | 1.1 | 10.911 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
- Tlaquepaque in MayMexico · 6 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 17.4°C · 18 mm rain
- Guadalajara in MayMexico · 13 kmHigh 32.4°C · Low 17.5°C · 18 mm rain
- Hacienda Santa Fe in MayMexico · 19 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 16.9°C · 16 mm rain
- Zapopan in MayMexico · 19 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 16.9°C · 14 mm rain
- Tepatitlán de Morelos in MayMexico · 54 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 16.0°C · 34 mm rain
- Ocotlán in MayMexico · 58 kmHigh 31.5°C · Low 17.4°C · 20 mm rain
- Ciudad Guzmán in MayMexico · 105 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 15.6°C · 36 mm rain
- Zamora de Hidalgo in MayMexico · 122 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 15.7°C · 41 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 Tonalá) is explained once on the Tonalá year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.