Climate averages 1991–2020
Masaya weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Masaya: daytime highs average 30.9°C and nights cool to about 23.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 175 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 40 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Granada, Nicaragua (16 km away). In May its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as Masaya, with 175 mm of rain.
Among the 7 cities listed in Nicaragua, Masaya ranks 5th of 7 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 7 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 7 cities is 31.0°C; Masaya is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 175 mm to 191 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
Masaya climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.7°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 3.4 | 0.9 | 11.512 h |
| February | 30.6°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 2.3 | 0.7 | 11.712 h |
| March | 31.7°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 3.4 | 0.9 | 12.112 h |
| April | 32.6°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 20 | 4.3 | 12.412 h |
| May, selected | 30.9°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 175 | 18.5 | 12.713 h |
| June | 29.1°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 191 | 24.6 | 12.813 h |
| July | 29.0°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 115 | 20.8 | 12.813 h |
| August | 29.4°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 140 | 22.3 | 12.513 h |
| September | 28.9°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 196 | 25.9 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 221 | 25.2 | 11.912 h |
| November | 28.6°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 68 | 10.9 | 11.612 h |
| December | 29.1°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 9.3 | 2.4 | 11.411 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
- Granada, Nicaragua in MayNicaragua · 16 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 25.0°C · 175 mm rain
- Managua in MayNicaragua · 24 kmHigh 33.3°C · Low 25.0°C · 146 mm rain
- León, Nicaragua in MayNicaragua · 99 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 25.2°C · 281 mm rain
- Matagalpa in MayNicaragua · 108 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.1°C · 196 mm rain
- Estelí in MayNicaragua · 128 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 20.9°C · 231 mm rain
- Chinandega in MayNicaragua · 134 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 25.5°C · 266 mm rain
- Ciudad Choluteca in MayHonduras · 189 kmHigh 33.3°C · Low 24.8°C · 323 mm rain
- Danlí in MayHonduras · 235 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 20.7°C · 170 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 Masaya) is explained once on the Masaya year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Granada, Nicaragua lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.