Poção de Pedras weather in May

In May, Poção de Pedras sees average daytime highs of 31°C and overnight lows near 23°C, with 100 mm of rain across 16.3 wet days and about 11.8 hours of daylight. It is the 9th-warmest and 6th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 31°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 19% of the time in May, and the air most often feels oppressive.

Daylight stretches from about 11 h 48 min at the start of May to 11 h 42 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, May is Poção de Pedras's 7th-clearest and 8th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Poção de Pedras's year-round climate.

Daytime high
31°
9th warmest
Overnight low
23°
5th coldest
Rainfall
100 mm
16.3 wet days
Daylight
11 h 48 min
6:02 AM – 5:50 PM
Cloud cover
65%
7th clearest
Wind
6 km/h
8th windiest
Solar energy
4.65 kWh/m²
Travel score
3.8
out of 10

Poção de Pedras 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 31°C through the month.

A typical May day in Poção de Pedras reaches about 31°C in the afternoon and slips back to 23°C overnight — a 8°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between 29°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 Poção de Pedras

Once humidity and wind are folded in, May averages 31 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
31
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
0
wind chill below the day's low

The story in May is heat — humidity pushes the afternoon "feels like" well above the raw temperature.

Poção de Pedras weather by month

How May compares with the rest of the year at a glance. May is the 9th-warmest and 6th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan31° / 23°22026.412.22.7
Feb31° / 23°2392512.22.7
Mar31° / 23°26728.5122.6
Apr31° / 23°20925.811.92.8
May31° / 23°10016.311.83.8
Jun32° / 22°204.811.74.8
Jul33° / 22°101.911.84.6
Aug34° / 22°50.911.83.9
Sep35° / 23°91.9123.3
Oct35° / 24°203.912.13.0
Nov34° / 24°5710.212.23.0
Dec33° / 24°1221712.32.9

Cloud cover in May

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 19% of the time in May.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 23% of May, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 58%. Skies tend to open up as the month goes on.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
12476
22476
32575
42674
52872
62971
73169
83367
93466
103565
113763
123961
134060
144159
154258
164357
174456
184654
194753
204753
214852
224951
235050
245248
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265446
275545
285743
295842
305941
316139

Chance of precipitation in May

Any precipitation

Poção de Pedras gets around 100 mm of rain over 16.3 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 53% and peaks near 73% on the wettest days. The odds ease toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)
173
271
369
468
566
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762
860
958
1057
1155
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1452
1552
1651
1751
1851
1950
2049
2149
2248
2347
2446
2544
2643
2741
2839
2938
3036
3134

Humidity in May

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

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

By dew point, May lands in the oppressive band about 54% of days. Sticky, muggy-or-worse air turns up on roughly 100% of them.

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Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
104258
204357
304456
404555
504555
604654
704753
804852
904852
1004951
1105050
1205149
1305149
1405248
1505347
1605446
1705446
1815445
1915544
2015643
2115742
2215841
2316039
2426038
2526137
2636235
2736433
2846531
2956629
3056827
3166826

Wind in May

Winds average 6 km/h in May.

Across May, daily wind ranges from about 5 km/h on the calmest days to 6 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Sunrise & sunset in May

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 11 h 48 min at the start of May to 11 h 42 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 6:02 AM to 6:05 AM, and sunset from 5:52 PM to 5:50 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
111.86:025:52
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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 4.65 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 4.39 kWh/m² to a high of 6.27 kWh/m² in September across the year — May's 4.65 kWh/m² falls in the middle.

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Planning a trip in May

Hazard calendar for Poção de Pedras

In seasonPeak

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

Poção de Pedras's monsoon runs December–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Is May a good time to visit Poção de Pedras?

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

3.8
Sightseeing
4th-best month of the year
5.6
Beach & pool
7th-best month of the year

May is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Poção de Pedras.

What to pack for Poção de Pedras in May

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

In May, Poção de Pedras sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

light clothesrain gearsun protection

UV index in Poção de Pedras 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 Poção de Pedras peaks around March 13 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 17 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 13UV 15Jul 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan13Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Air quality in Poção de Pedras in May

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where May falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Poção de Pedras is worst in November — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.2× the cleanest month (June, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateNov 1426 µg/m³Jun 189 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan15Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar14Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May11Good
Jun9Good
Jul10Good
Aug10Good
Sep13Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov27Moderate
Dec20Moderate
Location & terrain

Where is Poção de Pedras?

Poção de Pedras sits at 4.8°S, 44.9°W, 92 m above sea level, in Brazil. The nearest listed city is Esperantinópolis, 16 km away.

Topography around Poção de Pedras

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Poção de Pedras.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Poção de Pedras has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 174 m around an average of 85 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 220 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 406 m.

The land around Poção de Pedras is covered by grassland (64%) and trees (32%) within 3 km, grassland (56%) and trees (43%) within 16 km, and grassland (53%) and trees (46%) within 80 km.

3 km
174 m
16 km
220 m
80 km
406 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaces
May weather nearby: Esperantinópolis 16 km · Lago da Pedra 30 km · Trizidela do Vale 41 km · Pedreiras 44 km · Paulo Ramos 47 km · São Luís Gonzaga do Maranhão 51 km · Bacabal 60 km · Vitorino Freire 61 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 Poção de Pedras (-4.7518°, -44.9438°, elevation 92 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. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).