Climate averages 1991–2020
Dorsten weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Dorsten: daytime highs average 18.0°C and nights cool to about 9.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 36 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marl (9 km away). In May its highs average 17.9°C, about as warm as Dorsten, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Dorsten ranks joint 49th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 16th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Dorsten is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 20.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 59 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
Dorsten climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 75 | 13.5 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.3°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 61 | 11.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.8°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 62 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 50 | 10.7 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 18.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 59 | 11.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.8°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 67 | 12.0 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.9°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 78 | 13.1 | 16.216 h |
| August | 22.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 79 | 12.4 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 67 | 10.9 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.1°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 67 | 11.6 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 67 | 12.6 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 80 | 13.6 | 7.98 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
- Marl in MayGermany · 9 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 9.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Gladbeck in MayGermany · 10 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 9.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Recklinghausen in MayGermany · 17 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 67 mm rain
- Gelsenkirchen in MayGermany · 20 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Oberhausen in MayGermany · 22 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Essen in MayGermany · 23 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Mülheim in MayGermany · 26 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 62 mm rain
- Bochum in MayGermany · 27 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 9.0°C · 67 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 Dorsten) is explained once on the Dorsten year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Marl lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.