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Buenos Aires in May

Mild and mostly dry, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Buenos Aires is mild: highs near 66°F, lows near 53°F. Rain falls on about two days a week, and the days shorten by 40 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Buenos Aires is mild: highs near 19°C, lows near 12°C. Rain falls on about two days a week, and the days shorten by 40 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
66°F19°Caverage
Low
53°F12°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 22% of days
Daylight
10h 20mon average

Is May a good time to visit Buenos Aires?

A good month, just outside Buenos Aires's best months, which run in two parts: March to April, or October to November.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How May sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 66°F in May, against 59°F to 85°F through the year.Highs near 19°C in May, against 15°C to 29°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

22% of days in May, against 20% to 31% through the year.

Cloud cover

49% cover in May, against 30% to 51% through the year.

Daylight

10h 20m in May, against 9h 52m to 14h 26m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with May shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. April74°23°low 60°low 16°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May66°19°low 53°low 12°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. June61°16°low 48°low 9°1 wet day a weekRain on about one day a week.

Where Buenos Aires sits, in May

America/Argentina/Buenos Aires
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
7:39 AMsets 6:00 PM
Above the sea
30 mlow-lying
Latitude
34.6°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Anisacate643 km north-west

The land around Buenos Aires, shaded by its typical high in May, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Argentina in May

high · low · wet days
See May on the planning mapThe whole year in Buenos Aires

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Buenos Aires. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match.Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.