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La Paz in May

Warm and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in La Paz is warm: highs near 83°F, lows near 63°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 25 minutes from the first week to the last.May in La Paz is warm: highs near 28°C, lows near 17°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 25 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
83°F28°Caverage
Low
63°F17°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 0% of days
Daylight
13h 16mon average

Is May a good time to visit La Paz?

A good month, just outside La Paz's best months, which run from December to March.

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 83°F in May, against 79°F to 90°F through the year.Highs near 28°C in May, against 26°C to 32°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

0% of days in May, against 0% to 48% through the year.

Cloud cover

34% cover in May, against 26% to 67% through the year.

Daylight

13h 16m in May, against 10h 43m to 13h 33m 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. April81°27°low 61°low 16°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. May83°28°low 63°low 17°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. June85°29°low 67°low 19°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where La Paz sits, in May

America/Mazatlan
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
5:39 AMsets 6:55 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
23.4°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Los Cabos67 km south-east

The land around La Paz, 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 Mexico in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), read 12 km north-west of La Paz. Its own grid square is mostly sea and holds only a daily average, so the page reads the nearest square with a true high and low near the town's height. 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.