Climate averages 1991–2020
Angers weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Angers: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 10.0°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 joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 05 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nantes (81 km away). In May its highs average 18.4°C, about as warm as Angers, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Angers ranks joint 23rd of 57 for the warmest May highs and joint 18th of 57 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 57 cities is 18.9°C; Angers is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 22.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 44 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
Angers climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.3°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 62 | 11.2 | 8.99 h |
| February | 9.3°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 50 | 9.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 12.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 49 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.2°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 54 | 10.5 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 18.7°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 62 | 10.8 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 44 | 8.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 40 | 7.3 | 15.516 h |
| August | 24.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 46 | 7.1 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 50 | 7.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.8°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 68 | 10.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 11.8°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 62 | 11.4 | 9.49 h |
| December | 8.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 70 | 11.4 | 8.59 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
- Nantes in MayFrance · 81 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 10.3°C · 61 mm rain
- Le Mans in MayFrance · 82 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Tours in MayFrance · 95 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 10.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Rennes in MayFrance · 110 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Poitiers in MayFrance · 120 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 10.0°C · 72 mm rain
- La Rochelle in MayFrance · 152 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 11.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Orléans, France in MayFrance · 190 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.8°C · 69 mm rain
- Caen in MayFrance · 191 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 9.4°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 Angers) is explained once on the Angers year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.