Climate averages 1991–2020

Maple Ridge weather
in May.

A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 17.1°C Daytime mean, May

Average low 7.2°C Night-time mean, May

Rainfall 154 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

May is a mild month in Maple Ridge: daytime highs average 17.1°C and nights cool to about 7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 154 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 17 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Langley (14 km away). In May its highs average 17.2°C, about as warm as Maple Ridge, with 85 mm of rain.

Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Maple Ridge ranks joint 45th of 86 for the warmest May highs and 86th of 86 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 86 cities is 17.0°C; Maple Ridge is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 19.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 154 mm to 133 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Maple Ridge climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Maple Ridge, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	4.8°C-0.9°C	-0.9°C	397	20.1	8.79 h
February	6.7°C-0.7°C	-0.7°C	246	16.5	10.110 h
March	9.0°C0.8°C	0.8°C	322	20.3	11.912 h
April	12.8°C3.2°C	3.2°C	224	17.7	13.714 h
May, selected	17.1°C7.2°C	7.2°C	154	14.5	15.315 h
June	19.3°C10.4°C	10.4°C	133	14.1	16.216 h
July	23.0°C13.5°C	13.5°C	80	9.5	15.816 h
August	23.3°C13.8°C	13.8°C	107	9.1	14.414 h
September	20.0°C10.9°C	10.9°C	173	11.7	12.713 h
October	13.6°C6.5°C	6.5°C	319	17.9	10.811 h
November	7.8°C2.2°C	2.2°C	437	20.8	9.29 h
December	4.3°C-0.6°C	-0.6°C	378	20.3	8.38 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

May in nearby cities

Distance from Maple Ridge

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Maple Ridge) is explained once on the Maple Ridge year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.