Climate averages 1991–2020
Copenhagen weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Copenhagen: daytime highs average 15.4°C and nights cool to about 7.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 52 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 13 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Malmö (28 km away). In May its highs average 15.5°C, about as warm as Copenhagen, with 41 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Copenhagen ranks 2nd of 5 for the warmest May highs and 2nd of 5 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 5 cities is 15.1°C; Copenhagen is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 18.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 52 mm to 71 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
Copenhagen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 50 | 11.7 | 7.78 h |
| February | 3.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 41 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 43 | 10.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 41 | 9.3 | 14.114 h |
| May, selected | 15.4°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 71 | 11.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 20.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 77 | 12.8 | 15.115 h |
| September | 16.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 59 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 60 | 11.7 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.2°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 50 | 11.0 | 8.48 h |
| December | 4.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 53 | 11.5 | 7.27 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
- Malmö in MaySweden · 28 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.6°C · 41 mm rain
- Lund in MaySweden · 39 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 7.1°C · 53 mm rain
- Helsingborg in MaySweden · 42 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Halmstad in MaySweden · 112 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 7.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Odense in MayDenmark · 140 kmHigh 15.8°C · Low 7.9°C · 54 mm rain
- Århus in MayDenmark · 156 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 7.7°C · 55 mm rain
- Rostock in MayGermany · 179 kmHigh 16.5°C · Low 8.6°C · 57 mm rain
- Växjö in MaySweden · 192 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 6.6°C · 58 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 Copenhagen) is explained once on the Copenhagen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.