Climate averages 1991–2020
Bordeaux weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Bordeaux: daytime highs average 21.0°C and nights cool to about 11.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 75 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 48 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is La Rochelle (154 km away). In May its highs average 18.7°C, 2.4°C cooler than Bordeaux, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Bordeaux ranks 6th of 57 for the warmest May highs and 45th of 57 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 57 cities is 18.9°C; Bordeaux is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 24.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 75 mm to 64 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
Bordeaux climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10.1°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 71 | 10.8 | 9.29 h |
| February | 11.3°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 50 | 9.2 | 10.410 h |
| March | 14.8°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 53 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 69 | 11.9 | 13.513 h |
| May, selected | 21.0°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 75 | 11.5 | 14.815 h |
| June | 24.4°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 64 | 9.5 | 15.516 h |
| July | 26.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 48 | 7.9 | 15.215 h |
| August | 27.1°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 57 | 8.0 | 14.114 h |
| September | 23.8°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 58 | 8.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.4°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 67 | 10.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 13.7°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 79 | 11.6 | 9.610 h |
| December | 10.7°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 73 | 11.4 | 8.99 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
- La Rochelle in MayFrance · 154 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 11.8°C · 57 mm rain
- Pau in MayFrance · 171 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.7°C · 159 mm rain
- Limoges in MayFrance · 181 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 97 mm rain
- Donostia / San Sebastián in MaySpain · 203 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 12.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Poitiers in MayFrance · 206 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 10.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Toulouse in MayFrance · 212 kmHigh 20.7°C · Low 11.2°C · 82 mm rain
- Pamplona in MaySpain · 241 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.2°C · 69 mm rain
- Bilbao in MaySpain · 257 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 12.1°C · 84 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 Bordeaux) is explained once on the Bordeaux year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.