Climate averages 1991–2020
Nancy weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Nancy: daytime highs average 18.3°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 13 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Metz (48 km away). In May its highs average 18.2°C, about as warm as Nancy, with 70 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nancy ranks 37th of 57 for the warmest May highs and 44th of 57 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 57 cities is 18.9°C; Nancy is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 74 mm to 67 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
Nancy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 71 | 12.8 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 61 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 11.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 59 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 18.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 74 | 12.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 11.2 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 63 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 68 | 11.5 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 9.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 72 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 77 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 87 | 14.2 | 8.48 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
- Metz in MayFrance · 48 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.4°C · 70 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in MayGermany · 86 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Luxembourg in MayLuxembourg · 103 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.5°C · 66 mm rain
- Strasbourg in MayFrance · 115 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Trier in MayGermany · 124 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.0°C · 73 mm rain
- Mulhouse in MayFrance · 134 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.2°C · 93 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in MayGermany · 143 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Freiburg in MayGermany · 145 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 9.9°C · 105 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 Nancy) is explained once on the Nancy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.