Climate averages 1991–2020
Yaritagua weather
in May.
A hot, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Yaritagua: daytime highs average 28.8°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 130 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes May a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 35 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Los Rastrojos (14 km away). In May its highs average 28.3°C, about as warm as Yaritagua, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 65 cities listed in Venezuela, Yaritagua ranks 48th of 65 for the warmest May highs and 25th of 65 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 65 cities is 30.0°C; Yaritagua is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 27.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 130 mm to 148 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
Yaritagua climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.1°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 11 | 2.7 | 11.612 h |
| February | 31.0°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 10 | 2.5 | 11.812 h |
| March | 31.6°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 25 | 5.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.4°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 78 | 14.1 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 28.8°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 130 | 23.3 | 12.613 h |
| June | 27.7°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 148 | 26.4 | 12.713 h |
| July | 27.4°C21.2°C | 21.2°C | 160 | 28.3 | 12.713 h |
| August | 28.0°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 138 | 28.1 | 12.512 h |
| September | 28.8°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 106 | 25.6 | 12.212 h |
| October | 29.2°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 113 | 23.8 | 11.912 h |
| November | 29.0°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 96 | 20.3 | 11.712 h |
| December | 29.2°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 37 | 9.4 | 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
- Los Rastrojos in MayVenezuela · 14 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 21.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Cabudare in MayVenezuela · 16 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Barquisimeto in MayVenezuela · 26 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.4°C · 66 mm rain
- Chivacoa in MayVenezuela · 27 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 22.9°C · 166 mm rain
- San Felipe in MayVenezuela · 51 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.3°C · 180 mm rain
- Acarigua in MayVenezuela · 59 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.9°C · 197 mm rain
- San Carlos in MayVenezuela · 75 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 23.9°C · 194 mm rain
- El Tocuyo in MayVenezuela · 80 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 20.9°C · 143 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 Yaritagua) is explained once on the Yaritagua year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.