Climate averages 1991–2020
Aalborg weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Aalborg: daytime highs average 15.0°C and nights cool to about 7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 28 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Århus (101 km away). In May its highs average 15.1°C, about as warm as Aalborg, with 55 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Aalborg ranks 4th of 5 for the warmest May highs and 5th of 5 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 5 cities is 15.1°C; Aalborg is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 18.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 62 mm to 77 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
Aalborg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 57 | 11.5 | 7.57 h |
| February | 3.6°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 44 | 9.4 | 9.49 h |
| March | 6.1°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 44 | 10.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.8°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 46 | 10.0 | 14.214 h |
| May, selected | 15.0°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 62 | 10.9 | 16.516 h |
| June | 18.1°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 77 | 11.6 | 17.818 h |
| July | 20.4°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 72 | 11.6 | 17.217 h |
| August | 20.0°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 79 | 12.6 | 15.215 h |
| September | 16.3°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 61 | 10.8 | 12.913 h |
| October | 11.6°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 71 | 12.0 | 10.410 h |
| November | 7.2°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 54 | 11.0 | 8.28 h |
| December | 4.3°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 54 | 11.4 | 6.87 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
- Århus in MayDenmark · 101 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.7°C · 55 mm rain
- Gothenburg in MaySweden · 143 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Kristiansand in MayNorway · 167 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 7.4°C · 77 mm rain
- Halmstad in MaySweden · 183 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 7.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Odense in MayDenmark · 186 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Borås in MaySweden · 196 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.9°C · 71 mm rain
- Esbjerg in MayDenmark · 197 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 8.5°C · 49 mm rain
- Helsingborg in MaySweden · 203 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.5°C · 60 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 Aalborg) is explained once on the Aalborg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.