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Bogotá in May

Mild and wet, as the days hold steady.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Bogotá is mild: highs near 68°F, lows near 53°F. Rain falls on about five days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 20 minutes.May in Bogotá is mild: highs near 20°C, lows near 12°C. Rain falls on about five days a week, and daylight holds at about 12 hours 20 minutes.

High
68°F20°Caverage
Low
53°F12°Caverage
Wet days
5a week · 72% of days
Daylight
12h 20mon average

Is May a good time to visit Bogotá?

A good month, just outside Bogotá's best months, which run from July to August.

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 68°F in May, against 68°F to 71°F through the year.Highs near 20°C in May, against 20°C to 22°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

72% of days in May, against 38% to 89% through the year.

Cloud cover

83% cover in May, against 72% to 86% through the year.

Daylight

12h 20m in May, against 11h 51m to 12h 23m 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. April69°21°low 53°low 12°6 wet days a weekRain on about six days a week.
  2. May68°20°low 53°low 12°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  3. June68°20°low 52°low 11°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Bogotá sits, in May

America/Bogota
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:43 AMsets 6:02 PM
Above the sea
2,550 mhigh country
Latitude
4.7°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Medellín246 km north-west

The land around Bogotá, 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 Colombia in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Bogotá. 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 (2,550 m) against the climate model's (2,604 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 (2,550 m) against the climate model's (2,604 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.