Climate averages 1991–2020
El Paso weather
in May.
A hot, very dry month: the 4th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in El Paso: daytime highs average 30.9°C and nights cool to about 15.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 7.6 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes May a very dry month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 45 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ciudad Juárez (5 km away). In May its highs average 31.0°C, about as warm as El Paso, with 7.6 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, El Paso ranks joint 19th of 498 for the warmest May highs and 34th of 498 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 498 cities is 23.8°C; El Paso is 7.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.7°C to 35.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 7.6 mm to 10 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 Paso climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.1°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 13 | 3.0 | 10.310 h |
| February | 17.4°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 12 | 2.6 | 11.011 h |
| March | 21.7°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 8.9 | 1.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.2°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 4.1 | 1.0 | 12.913 h |
| May, selected | 30.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 7.6 | 1.8 | 13.814 h |
| June | 35.6°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 10 | 2.2 | 14.214 h |
| July | 34.7°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 30 | 5.7 | 14.014 h |
| August | 33.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 24 | 5.2 | 13.313 h |
| September | 30.7°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 31 | 4.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.8°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 18 | 3.5 | 11.411 h |
| November | 19.0°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 12 | 2.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 13.8°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 18 | 3.6 | 10.110 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
- Ciudad Juárez in MayMexico · 5 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 15.7°C · 7.6 mm rain
- Las Cruces in MayUnited States · 67 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 15.7°C · 7.3 mm rain
- Agua Prieta in MayMexico · 294 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 14.9°C · 4.9 mm rain
- Chihuahua in MayMexico · 349 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 15.9°C · 13 mm rain
- Albuquerque in MayUnited States · 370 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 12.1°C · 12 mm rain
- Cuauhtémoc in MayMexico · 375 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 10.7°C · 11 mm rain
- Rio Rancho in MayUnited States · 387 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 11.5°C · 18 mm rain
- Odessa in MayUnited States · 389 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 17.1°C · 55 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 Paso) is explained once on the El Paso year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ciudad Juárez lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.