Climate averages 1991–2020
Los Rastrojos weather
in May.
A hot, moderately wet month: the 9th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Los Rastrojos: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 21.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 35 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cabudare (2 km away). In May its highs average 29.2°C, 0.9°C warmer than Los Rastrojos, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Los Rastrojos ranks joint 54th of 65 for the warmest May highs and joint 7th of 65 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 65 cities is 30.0°C; Los Rastrojos is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 66 mm to 60 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
Los Rastrojos climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.4°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 6.7 | 1.8 | 11.612 h |
| February | 31.2°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 7.2 | 2.1 | 11.812 h |
| March | 31.7°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 25 | 4.4 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.2°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 52 | 11.5 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 28.3°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 66 | 16.6 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.1°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 60 | 18.7 | 12.713 h |
| July | 26.9°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 54 | 18.5 | 12.613 h |
| August | 27.6°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 44 | 17.7 | 12.512 h |
| September | 28.6°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 41 | 15.1 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.0°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 55 | 15.7 | 11.912 h |
| November | 29.1°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 43 | 12.0 | 11.712 h |
| December | 29.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 16 | 4.5 | 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
- Cabudare in MayVenezuela · 2 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Barquisimeto in MayVenezuela · 13 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Yaritagua in MayVenezuela · 14 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.2°C · 130 mm rain
- Chivacoa in MayVenezuela · 41 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.9°C · 166 mm rain
- Acarigua in MayVenezuela · 53 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.9°C · 197 mm rain
- San Felipe in MayVenezuela · 65 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.3°C · 180 mm rain
- El Tocuyo in MayVenezuela · 66 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 20.9°C · 143 mm rain
- San Carlos in MayVenezuela · 82 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 194 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 Los Rastrojos) is explained once on the Los Rastrojos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Barquisimeto and Cabudare lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.