Climate averages 1991–2020
Caracas weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Caracas: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 20.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 145 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes May a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 36 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Baruta (6 km away). In May its highs average 27.8°C, 0.8°C cooler than Caracas, with 145 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Caracas ranks joint 51st of 65 for the warmest May highs and joint 35th of 65 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 65 cities is 30.0°C; Caracas is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 145 mm to 107 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
Caracas climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.7°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 29 | 9.0 | 11.612 h |
| February | 27.6°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 27 | 7.1 | 11.812 h |
| March | 28.8°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 48 | 8.8 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.8°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 119 | 16.0 | 12.412 h |
| May, selected | 28.6°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 145 | 19.6 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 107 | 19.0 | 12.713 h |
| July | 27.7°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 130 | 22.2 | 12.713 h |
| August | 27.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 182 | 25.5 | 12.512 h |
| September | 28.1°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 191 | 25.0 | 12.212 h |
| October | 27.6°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 214 | 27.0 | 11.912 h |
| November | 26.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 179 | 24.1 | 11.712 h |
| December | 26.3°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 61 | 14.9 | 11.512 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
- Baruta in MayVenezuela · 6 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 19.7°C · 145 mm rain
- Petare in MayVenezuela · 8 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 20.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Los Teques in MayVenezuela · 24 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.6°C · 126 mm rain
- Guarenas in MayVenezuela · 28 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 22.6°C · 131 mm rain
- Cúa in MayVenezuela · 36 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 22.5°C · 126 mm rain
- Santa Teresa del Tuy in MayVenezuela · 37 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 22.7°C · 97 mm rain
- Guatire in MayVenezuela · 37 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.7°C · 131 mm rain
- Ocumare del Tuy in MayVenezuela · 43 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 205 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 Caracas) is explained once on the Caracas year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Baruta lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.