Climate averages 1991–2020
Puno weather
in May.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a cool month in Puno: daytime highs average 14.6°C and nights cool to about 0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 20 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 23 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Juliaca (40 km away). In May its highs average 14.2°C, about as warm as Puno, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Peru, Puno ranks 22nd of 24 for the warmest May highs and 14th of 24 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 24 cities is 23.7°C; Puno is 9.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 14.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 20 mm to 7.7 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
Puno climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.1°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 224 | 27.6 | 13.013 h |
| February | 14.2°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 207 | 25.2 | 12.613 h |
| March | 14.0°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 174 | 26.1 | 12.212 h |
| April | 14.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 79 | 17.2 | 11.812 h |
| May, selected | 14.6°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 20 | 5.6 | 11.411 h |
| June | 14.7°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 7.7 | 2.2 | 11.211 h |
| July | 14.7°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 8.7 | 2.8 | 11.311 h |
| August | 15.3°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 20 | 5.2 | 11.612 h |
| September | 15.8°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 51 | 11.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 16.0°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 81 | 15.9 | 12.412 h |
| November | 16.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 85 | 16.1 | 12.813 h |
| December | 15.2°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 156 | 23.5 | 13.013 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
- Juliaca in MayPeru · 40 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low -0.5°C · 22 mm rain
- Viacha in MayBolivia · 205 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 0.2°C · 14 mm rain
- La Paz in MayBolivia · 213 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 2.4°C · 16 mm rain
- Tacna in MayPeru · 243 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 15.0°C · 4.1 mm rain
- Arica in MayChile · 295 kmHigh 20.1°C · Low 14.9°C · 24 mm rain
- Cusco in MayPeru · 331 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 6.5°C · 24 mm rain
- Puerto Maldonado in MayPeru · 372 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 21.1°C · 88 mm rain
- Oruro in MayBolivia · 391 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low -0.4°C · 7.3 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 Puno) is explained once on the Puno year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.