Missão Velha weather in May

In May, Missão Velha sees average daytime highs of 30°C and overnight lows near 21°C, with 37 mm of rain across 6.7 wet days and about 11.7 hours of daylight. It is the 10th-warmest and 5th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 27% of the time in May, and the air most often feels muggy.

Daylight stretches from about 11 h 42 min at the start of May to 11 h 36 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Missão Velha's 8th-clearest and 6th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Missão Velha's year-round climate.

Daytime high
30°
10th warmest
Overnight low
21°
5th coldest
Rainfall
37 mm
6.7 wet days
Daylight
11 h 42 min
5:43 AM – 5:23 PM
Cloud cover
58%
8th clearest
Wind
10 km/h
6th windiest
Solar energy
4.79 kWh/m²
Travel score
5.5
out of 10

Missão Velha is settlement in Brazil.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Temperature in May

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 30°C through the month.

A typical May day in Missão Velha reaches about 30°C in the afternoon and slips back to 21°C overnight — a 9°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 27°C and 32°C. Set against its neighbours, May runs on par with April and on par with June.

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How May really feels in Missão Velha

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 0 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
0
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

May sits comfortably in between — no days that feel dangerously hot or drop to a hard freeze once humidity and wind are folded in.

Missão Velha weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 10th-warmest and 5th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan31° / 22°11314.112.43.9
Feb31° / 22°1211412.24.1
Mar30° / 22°15218124.1
Apr30° / 22°9212.911.84.6
May30° / 21°376.711.75.5
Jun29° / 20°122.811.66.3
Jul29° / 19°61.411.66.4
Aug31° / 19°30.611.85.9
Sep33° / 21°20.4124.8
Oct34° / 22°81.512.23.9
Nov34° / 23°152.612.33.8
Dec33° / 23°335.312.43.9

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 27% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 25% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 48%. Skies tend to open up as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
14654
24654
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94852
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Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Missão Velha gets around 37 mm of rain over 6.7 wet days in May. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable rain averages around 22% and peaks near 31% on the wettest days. The odds ease toward the end of the month.

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Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of May feels muggy — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, May lands in the muggy band about 64% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 72% of them.

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Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
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51186813
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92206612
102216611
112216611
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Wind in May

Winds average 10 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 9 km/h on the calmest days to 12 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 11 h 42 min at the start of May to 11 h 36 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days shrink by about 6 minutes over May. Sunrise moves from 5:41 AM to 5:46 AM, and sunset from 5:26 PM to 5:22 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
111.75:415:26
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Solar energy in May

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in May, about 4.79 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.55 kWh/m² to a high of 6.9 kWh/m² in October across the year — May's 4.79 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

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Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Missão Velha

In seasonPeak

None of Missão Velha's seasonal hazards are active in May. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

Missão Velha's rainy season runs January–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Is May a good time to visit Missão Velha?

Our two travel scores rate May for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

5.5
Sightseeing
4th-best month of the year
7.4
Beach & pool
6th-best month of the year

May is a reasonable time to visit Missão Velha for sightseeing. The water and warmth also suit a beach or pool day.

What to pack for Missão Velha in May

From May's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In May, Missão Velha sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

light clothessun protection

UV index in Missão Velha in May

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in May peaks around 11 (very high — sun protection essential). The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Missão Velha peaks around March 13 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 14 at about 10 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 13UV 15Jul 14UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme
Location & terrain

Where is Missão Velha?

Missão Velha sits at 7.2°S, 39.1°W, 364 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Barbalha, 19 km away.

Topography around Missão Velha

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Missão Velha.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Missão Velha has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 171 m around an average of 373 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 621 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 822 m.

The land around Missão Velha is covered by grassland (39%) and shrubs (31%) within 3 km, shrubs (38%), grassland (32%) and trees (24%) within 16 km, and shrubs (55%) and grassland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
171 m
16 km
621 m
80 km
822 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
May weather nearby: Barbalha 19 km · Juazeiro do Norte 19 km · Milagres 23 km · Caririaçu 28 km · Crato 29 km · Porteiras 32 km · Brejo Santo 32 km · Aurora 39 km

Brazil travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / N
127 / 220 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 46% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$10,713
2025
Happiness
6.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
89%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
19.3
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
16
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 482
Religion
Roman Catholic 57%Evangelical 27%none 9%other 4%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Missão Velha (-7.2497°, -39.1431°, elevation 364 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).