Climate averages 1991–2020
Jaén weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Jaén: daytime highs average 23.5°C and nights cool to about 11.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 56 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 11 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Granada (67 km away). In May its highs average 23.3°C, about as warm as Jaén, with 50 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Jaén ranks 20th of 93 for the warmest May highs and 74th of 93 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 93 cities is 21.8°C; Jaén is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 5.7°C to 29.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 56 mm to 23 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
Jaén climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 56 | 8.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 13.4°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 54 | 7.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 16.8°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 63 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.1°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 69 | 9.5 | 13.113 h |
| May, selected | 23.5°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 56 | 8.2 | 14.214 h |
| June | 29.2°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 23 | 3.6 | 14.715 h |
| July | 33.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 5.3 | 1.6 | 14.515 h |
| August | 33.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 13 | 3.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 27.6°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 42 | 5.8 | 12.512 h |
| October | 21.9°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 65 | 8.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.5°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 69 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| December | 12.6°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 71 | 8.3 | 9.610 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 in MaySpain · 67 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 11.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Córdoba, Spain in MaySpain · 87 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 14.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Vélez-Málaga in MaySpain · 113 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 15.6°C · 24 mm rain
- Málaga in MaySpain · 129 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 15.4°C · 26 mm rain
- Ciudad Real in MaySpain · 136 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 11.0°C · 42 mm rain
- El Ejido in MaySpain · 140 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 16.4°C · 18 mm rain
- Mijas in MaySpain · 151 kmHigh 19.5°C · Low 12.2°C · 20 mm rain
- Roquetas de Mar in MaySpain · 153 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 16.5°C · 13 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 Jaén) is explained once on the Jaén year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.