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Isla Mujeres in May

sweet spot · the best month to go · the sunniest month of the year

The year in Isla Mujeres

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  1. Isla Mujeres in January: ok, busy
  2. Isla Mujeres in February: good, busy
  3. Isla Mujeres in March: good, busy
  4. Isla Mujeres in April: sweet spot
  5. Isla Mujeres in May: sweet spot
  6. Isla Mujeres in June: sweet spot
  7. Isla Mujeres in July: good
  8. Isla Mujeres in August: good
  9. Isla Mujeres in September: good
  10. Isla Mujeres in October: good
  11. Isla Mujeres in November: good
  12. Isla Mujeres in December: good
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  • Busy
May at Isla Mujeres is 30°C by day and 25°C at night, with 4 rainy days and about 12 hours of sun a day. 30C max, 4 rainy days.

The numbers

Daily high30°C
Nightly low25°C
Feels like, afternoon35°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more4 · 86 mm
Humidity76%
Sunshine11.8 h/day
Daylight13.2 h/day
Beach and sea27 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 28 °C, warm good
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the town and Playa Norte: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

May: quiet. Busiest from January to March; quietest in May, August, September and October.

Public holidays in May

Holidays crowd a place out; they count toward the crowd score above.

Isla Mujeres in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 30°C.
  • Sun protection: about 12 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 76%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 127 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Peso. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Mexico: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Isla Mujeres: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

May elsewhere

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