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Tambopata in May

Hot and wet, as the days shorten.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

May in Tambopata is hot: highs near 85°F, lows near 70°F. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 12 minutes from the first week to the last.May in Tambopata is hot: highs near 29°C, lows near 21°C. Rain falls on about three days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days shorten by 12 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
85°F29°Caverage
Low
70°F21°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 48% of days
Daylight
11h 32mon average

Is May a good time to visit Tambopata?

A good month, just outside Tambopata's most comfortable months, which run from June to July.

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 85°F in May, against 85°F to 92°F through the year.Highs near 29°C in May, against 29°C to 33°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

48% of days in May, against 24% to 91% through the year.

Cloud cover

59% cover in May, against 34% to 81% through the year.

Daylight

11h 32m in May, against 11h 24m to 12h 51m through the year.

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

Either side

  1. April88°31°low 72°low 22°5 wet days a weekRain on about five days a week.
  2. May85°29°low 70°low 21°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. June85°29°low 69°low 21°2 wet days a weekRain on about two days a week.

Where Tambopata sits, in May

America/La Paz
this place
typical high in May 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-May
6:46 AMsets 6:19 PM
Above the sea
180 mlow-lying
Latitude
12.6°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Cusco330 km west

The land around Tambopata, 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 Peru in May

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

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Tambopata. 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.