Climate · Valle de las Leñas

Valle de las Leñas in May

Chilly and damp, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Valle de las Leñas is chilly: highs near 47°F, lows near 29°F. Rain or snow falls on about two days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 41 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Valle de las Leñas is chilly: highs near 8°C, lows near -2°C. Rain or snow falls on about two days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 41 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
47°F8°Caverage
Low
29°F-2°Caverage
Wet days
2a week · 31% of days
Daylight
10h 18mon average

Is May a good time to visit Valle de las Leñas?


May sits outside Valle de las Leñas's best months, which run from January to March. Expect chilly days and rain or snow on about two days a week.

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 47°F in May, against 38°F to 71°F through the year.Highs near 8°C in May, against 3°C to 22°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

31% of days in May, against 18% to 43% through the year.

Cloud cover

48% cover in May, against 18% to 49% through the year.

Daylight

10h 18m in May, against 9h 50m to 14h 29m 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.

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  1. April60°16°low 37°low 3°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May47°8°low 29°low -2°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  3. June39°4°low 23°low -5°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Valle de las Leñas sits, in May

America/Argentina/Mendoza

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
8:27 AMsets 6:46 PM
Above the sea
2,240 mhigh country
Latitude
35.1°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
San Pablo186 km north-east

The land around Valle de las Leñas, 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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Valle de las Leñas. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (2,240 m) against the climate model's (2,716 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (2,240 m) against the climate model's (2,716 m). 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.