Climate averages 1991–2020

Santa Lucía weather
in May.

A mild, very dry month: the 6th warmest and the 4th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 20.3°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 14.5°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 6.5 mm 2 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Santa Lucía · average highYear overview

May is a mild month in Santa Lucía: daytime highs average 20.3°C and nights cool to about 14.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 6.5 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes May a very dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 31 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Telde (15 km away). In May its highs average 21.3°C, 0.9°C warmer than Santa Lucía, with 6.5 mm of rain.

Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Santa Lucía ranks joint 69th of 93 for the warmest May highs and joint 2nd of 93 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 93 cities is 21.8°C; Santa Lucía is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 22.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 6.5 mm to under 1 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Santa Lucía climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Santa Lucía, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 16.5°C12.1°C12.1°C224.610.611 h
February 16.8°C12.0°C12.0°C254.611.211 h
March 18.0°C12.6°C12.6°C204.312.012 h
April 18.8°C13.3°C13.3°C123.412.813 h
May, selected 20.3°C14.5°C14.5°C6.51.513.514 h
June 22.2°C16.2°C16.2°C0.90.313.914 h
July 24.1°C17.7°C17.7°C0.30.013.714 h
August 24.9°C18.6°C18.6°C1.50.413.113 h
September 23.9°C18.3°C18.3°C9.81.812.312 h
October 22.4°C17.2°C17.2°C244.911.512 h
November 19.7°C15.2°C15.2°C225.310.811 h
December 17.6°C13.4°C13.4°C305.610.410 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

Distance from Santa Lucía

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Santa Lucía) is explained once on the Santa Lucía year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Telde lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.