Average May Temperatures for New Mexico

Average temperatures for May at cities, towns, parks and lakes throughout New Mexico are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Southern, Central and Northern New Mexico.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Southern New Mexico

Average May temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
85	59	Alamogordo	29	15
87	50	Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge	30	10
88	58	Carlsbad	31	14
84	58	Carlsbad Caverns National Park	29	15
74	36	Cuba	23	2
86	58	Elephant Butte Lake Dam	30	14
81	36	Gila Hot Springs	27	2
85	57	Hobbs	30	14
87	54	Las Cruces	31	12
88	57	Roswell	31	14
73	40	Ruidoso	23	5
88	50	White Sands National Monument	31	10

Central New Mexico

Average daily temperatures in May
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
80	52	Albuquerque	27	11
82	52	Clovis	28	11
81	54	Conchas Lake Dam	27	12
72	35	El Morro National Monument	22	1
75	36	Gallup	24	2
78	45	Gran Quivira National Monument	26	7
80	39	Grants	26	4
72	41	Las Vegas	22	5
73	39	Pecos National Monument	23	4
74	41	Santa Fe	23	5
83	49	Socorro	28	9
82	52	Tucumcari	28	11

Northern New Mexico

May temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
73	44	Abiquiu Lake Dam	23	7
80	41	Aztec Ruins National Monument	27	5
76	37	Chaco Canyon National Monument	24	3
76	47	Clayton	25	8
66	32	Eagle Nest	19	0
69	33	El Vado Lake Dam	21	0
75	45	Farmington	24	7
66	36	Lake Maloya (Sugarite Canyon Park)	19	2
72	38	Raton	22	3
62	30	Red River	17	-1
73	37	Taos	23	3

Average Temperatures for New Mexico in May

Southern New Mexico

Central New Mexico

Northern New Mexico

Reference

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