May Temperature Averages for South American Cities

Temperature averages for May at major cities throughout South America are listed below in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Included in this group are South America's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The cities are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Asunción to Cochabamba or Córdoba to Montevideo or Natal to Vitíria.

The tables give the averages of this month's maximum and minimum daily temperatures based on historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Average May temperatures
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
77 60 Asunción, Paraguay 25 16
85 70 Barquisimeto, Venezuela 30 21
88 88 Barranquilla, Colombia 31 31
88 73 Belém, Brazil 31 23
79 59 Belo Horizonte, Brazil 26 15
67 51 Bogotá, Colombia 19 10
78 59 Brasília, Brazil 26 15
83 67 Bucaramanga, Colombia 28 20
67 51 Buenos Aires, Argentina 19 10
85 67 Cali, Colombia 29 20
78 57 Campinas, Brazil 26 14
89 65 Caracas, Venezuela 32 18
88 78 Cartagena, Colombia 31 25
85 76 Cayenne, French Guiana 29 24
80 41 Cochabamba, Bolivia 27 5
Temperatures averages for May
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
72 49 Córdoba, Argentina 22 9
70 50 Curitiba, Brazil 21 10
86 74 Fortaleza, Brazil 30 23
103 76 Georgetown, Guyana 39 24
84 61 Goiânia, Brazil 29 16
88 73 Guayaquil, Ecuador 31 23
85 72 Joao Pessoa, Brazil 30 22
58 43 La Paz - El Alto, Bolivia 15 6
71 61 Lima, Peru 22 16
83 72 Maceió, Brazil 29 22
87 74 Manaus, Brazil 31 23
95 74 Maracaibo, Venezuela 35 24
89 72 Maracay, Venezuela 32 22
82 64 Medellín, Colombia 28 18
65 45 Mendoza, Argentina 18 7
65 50 Montevideo, Uruguay 19 10
May temperature averages
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
84 72 Natal, Brazil 29 22
86 75 Paramaribo, Suriname 30 24
72 55 Porto Alegre, Brazil 22 13
70 50 Quito, Ecuador 21 10
84 71 Recife, Brazil 29 22
80 69 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 26 20
68 47 Rosario, Argentina 20 8
82 73 Salvador, Brazil 28 23
80 41 Santa Cruz, Bolivia 27 5
66 43 Santiago, Chile 19 6
86 74 Sao Luís, Brazil 30 23
73 57 São Paulo, Brazil 23 14
80 43 Sucre, Bolivia 27 6
89 72 Teresina, Brazil 32 22
82 69 Vitíria, Brazil 28 21
Reference

The temperature data are provided by national meteorological agencies.

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