Climate averages 1991–2020
Mulhouse weather
in May.
A mild, wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Mulhouse: daytime highs average 18.4°C and nights cool to about 9.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 07 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basel (28 km away). In May its highs average 18.7°C, about as warm as Mulhouse, with 129 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Mulhouse ranks joint 34th of 57 for the warmest May highs and 51st of 57 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 57 cities is 18.9°C; Mulhouse is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 22.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 93 mm to 80 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
Mulhouse climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 75 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 66 | 10.7 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 71 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 68 | 11.8 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 18.4°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 93 | 14.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 80 | 13.2 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 81 | 12.9 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.3°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 80 | 12.0 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 74 | 10.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 83 | 12.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.0°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 81 | 11.8 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.4°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 92 | 13.2 | 8.58 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
- Basel in MaySwitzerland · 28 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 8.9°C · 129 mm rain
- Freiburg in MayGermany · 48 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 9.9°C · 105 mm rain
- Bern in MaySwitzerland · 90 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 7.0°C · 117 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in MayGermany · 93 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 7.1°C · 133 mm rain
- Strasbourg in MayFrance · 98 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Zürich in MaySwitzerland · 101 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.6°C · 144 mm rain
- Luzern in MaySwitzerland · 107 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.1°C · 188 mm rain
- Winterthur in MaySwitzerland · 108 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.5°C · 119 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 Mulhouse) is explained once on the Mulhouse year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.