Climate averages 1991–2020
Victoria weather
in May.
A cool, fairly dry month: the 5th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a cool month in Victoria: daytime highs average 14.5°C and nights cool to about 9.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 38 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes May a fairly dry month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 12 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bellingham (73 km away). In May its highs average 15.9°C, 1.4°C warmer than Victoria, with 86 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Victoria ranks 80th of 86 for the warmest May highs and 1st of 86 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 86 cities is 17.0°C; Victoria is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 16.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 38 mm to 27 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Victoria climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 146 | 16.6 | 8.89 h |
| February | 7.2°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 86 | 12.4 | 10.210 h |
| March | 8.8°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 89 | 13.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 11.2°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 53 | 10.1 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 14.5°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 38 | 7.0 | 15.215 h |
| June | 16.8°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 27 | 5.7 | 16.016 h |
| July | 19.8°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 14 | 3.1 | 15.716 h |
| August | 20.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 22 | 3.2 | 14.314 h |
| September | 17.4°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 39 | 6.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.6°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 103 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.6°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 153 | 16.3 | 9.39 h |
| December | 6.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 138 | 16.2 | 8.48 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
- Bellingham in MayUnited States · 73 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 8.1°C · 86 mm rain
- Delta in MayCanada · 76 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 8.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Surrey in MayCanada · 84 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 7.3°C · 85 mm rain
- Langley in MayCanada · 90 kmHigh 17.2°C · Low 7.5°C · 85 mm rain
- New Westminster in MayCanada · 92 kmHigh 16.6°C · Low 7.1°C · 117 mm rain
- Nanaimo in MayCanada · 92 kmHigh 16.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Vancouver in MayCanada · 92 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 8.4°C · 117 mm rain
- Burnaby in MayCanada · 97 kmHigh 16.4°C · Low 8.0°C · 117 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Victoria) is explained once on the Victoria year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.