Climate averages 1991–2020
El Ejido weather
in May.
A warm, fairly dry month: the joint 5th warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in El Ejido: daytime highs average 22.4°C and nights cool to about 16.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 18 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 07 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Roquetas de Mar (18 km away). In May its highs average 22.5°C, about as warm as El Ejido, with 13 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, El Ejido ranks joint 40th of 93 for the warmest May highs and joint 9th of 93 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 93 cities is 21.8°C; El Ejido is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.9°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 18 mm to 8.2 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
El Ejido climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.1°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 29 | 5.5 | 9.910 h |
| February | 15.6°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 27 | 5.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 17.4°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 30 | 5.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.2°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 22 | 5.1 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 22.4°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 18 | 4.0 | 14.114 h |
| June | 26.4°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 8.2 | 1.9 | 14.615 h |
| July | 29.4°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 1.8 | 0.4 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.6°C23.6°C | 23.6°C | 6.2 | 1.5 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.1°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 17 | 3.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 22.4°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 26 | 4.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 18.3°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 34 | 5.5 | 10.210 h |
| December | 16.0°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 34 | 4.9 | 9.710 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
- Roquetas de Mar in MaySpain · 18 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 16.5°C · 13 mm rain
- Almería in MaySpain · 32 kmHigh 25.1°C · Low 16.2°C · 13 mm rain
- Granada in MaySpain · 84 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 11.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Vélez-Málaga in MaySpain · 115 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 15.6°C · 24 mm rain
- Lorca in MaySpain · 140 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 12.7°C · 35 mm rain
- Jaén in MaySpain · 140 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 11.3°C · 56 mm rain
- Málaga in MaySpain · 143 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 15.4°C · 26 mm rain
- Mijas in MaySpain · 164 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 12.2°C · 20 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 El Ejido) is explained once on the El Ejido year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.