Climate averages 1991–2020
Erlangen 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 Erlangen: daytime highs average 18.6°C and nights cool to about 8.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 20 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Fürth (13 km away). In May its highs average 18.5°C, about as warm as Erlangen, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Erlangen ranks joint 19th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 86th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Erlangen is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 73 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
Erlangen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.4°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 62 | 12.2 | 8.79 h |
| February | 5.1°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 51 | 10.1 | 10.110 h |
| March | 9.4°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 62 | 12.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 48 | 10.6 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 18.6°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 72 | 12.2 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 73 | 12.4 | 16.216 h |
| July | 23.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 77 | 12.8 | 15.816 h |
| August | 23.8°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 69 | 11.3 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.2°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 61 | 9.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.8°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 62 | 11.2 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 63 | 10.8 | 9.29 h |
| December | 4.0°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 69 | 13.5 | 8.28 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
- Fürth in MayGermany · 13 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 8.8°C · 72 mm rain
- Nuremberg in MayGermany · 16 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Bamberg in MayGermany · 35 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.3°C · 68 mm rain
- Bayreuth in MayGermany · 57 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 8.7°C · 74 mm rain
- Würzburg in MayGermany · 79 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 9.2°C · 68 mm rain
- Ingolstadt in MayGermany · 97 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.1°C · 76 mm rain
- Regensburg in MayGermany · 102 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 9.0°C · 82 mm rain
- Augsburg in MayGermany · 136 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 8.4°C · 110 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 Erlangen) is explained once on the Erlangen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Nuremberg and Fürth lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.