Climate · Ambergris Caye

Ambergris Caye in May

Warm and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Ambergris Caye is warm, around 81°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Ambergris Caye is warm, around 27°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, more often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 19 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
81°F27°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 54% of days
Daylight
12h 58mon average

Is May a good time to visit Ambergris Caye?


A good month, just outside Ambergris Caye's best months, which run from March to April.

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

Around 81°F in May, against 76°F to 82°F through the year.Around 27°C in May, against 24°C to 28°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

54% of days in May, against 31% to 84% through the year.

Cloud cover

58% cover in May, against 30% to 77% through the year.

Daylight

12h 58m in May, against 11h 04m to 13h 11m 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. April80°27°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.
  2. May81°27°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. June82°28°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.

Where Ambergris Caye sits, in May

America/Belize

this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:19 AMsets 6:17 PM
Above the sea
0 mlow-lying
Latitude
17.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Placencia Village149 km south

The land around Ambergris Caye, 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 Belize in May

typical · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Ambergris Caye sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. 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.