Climate averages 1991–2020
Paris 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 Paris: daytime highs average 18.6°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 15 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Paris 13 Gobelins (2 km away). In May its highs average 18.5°C, about as warm as Paris, with 66 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Paris ranks joint 25th of 57 for the warmest May highs and joint 31st of 57 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 57 cities is 18.9°C; Paris is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 66 mm to 57 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
Paris climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.1°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 52 | 11.3 | 8.89 h |
| February | 8.3°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 48 | 10.0 | 10.110 h |
| March | 11.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 50 | 10.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 50 | 10.6 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 18.6°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 66 | 11.3 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 57 | 10.6 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.1°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 55 | 9.4 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 56 | 9.0 | 14.414 h |
| September | 20.6°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 47 | 8.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.1°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 62 | 11.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 10.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 58 | 11.3 | 9.29 h |
| December | 7.5°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 68 | 12.5 | 8.38 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
- Paris 13 Gobelins in MayFrance · 2 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.5°C · 66 mm rain
- Paris 15 Vaugirard in MayFrance · 4 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.7°C · 66 mm rain
- Paris 20 Ménilmontant in MayFrance · 4 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.2°C · 65 mm rain
- Boulogne-Billancourt in MayFrance · 8 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Créteil in MayFrance · 11 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.7°C · 65 mm rain
- Argenteuil in MayFrance · 13 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Aulnay-sous-Bois in MayFrance · 14 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Versailles in MayFrance · 17 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 9.2°C · 66 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 Paris) is explained once on the Paris year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Paris 15 Vaugirard, Paris 13 Gobelins and Boulogne-Billancourt lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.