Climate averages 1991–2020
Freiburg weather
in May.
A mild, 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 Freiburg: daytime highs average 18.9°C and nights cool to about 9.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 105 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes May a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 09 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (48 km away). In May its highs average 18.4°C, about as warm as Freiburg, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Freiburg ranks joint 7th of 120 for the warmest May highs and 115th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Freiburg is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.5°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 105 mm to 89 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
Freiburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 91 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 77 | 11.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 83 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 74 | 13.1 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 18.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 105 | 15.4 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 89 | 14.2 | 16.016 h |
| July | 24.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 13.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 81 | 12.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 77 | 11.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 85 | 12.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 89 | 12.4 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 108 | 14.4 | 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
- Mulhouse in MayFrance · 48 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.2°C · 93 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in MayGermany · 48 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 7.1°C · 133 mm rain
- Basel in MaySwitzerland · 53 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 8.9°C · 129 mm rain
- Strasbourg in MayFrance · 66 kmHigh 19.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 83 mm rain
- Winterthur in MaySwitzerland · 85 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.5°C · 119 mm rain
- Zürich in MaySwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.6°C · 144 mm rain
- Konstanz in MayGermany · 106 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 11.2°C · 119 mm rain
- Tübingen in MayGermany · 106 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 93 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 Freiburg) is explained once on the Freiburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.