Climate averages 1991–2020
Göttingen weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Göttingen: daytime highs average 17.4°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 61 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 35 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kassel (39 km away). In May its highs average 17.5°C, about as warm as Göttingen, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Göttingen ranks joint 93rd of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 35th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Göttingen is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.1°C to 20.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 61 mm to 66 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
Göttingen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.6°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 66 | 13.2 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.0°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 52 | 11.2 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.8°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 59 | 12.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.6°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 47 | 10.5 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 17.4°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 61 | 11.4 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.5°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 66 | 12.3 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.7°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 75 | 12.8 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 67 | 11.1 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.4°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 56 | 10.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.3°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 60 | 11.6 | 10.711 h |
| November | 7.9°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 60 | 11.9 | 8.99 h |
| December | 4.4°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 67 | 14.0 | 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
- Kassel in MayGermany · 39 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 8.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Hildesheim in MayGermany · 69 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Salzgitter in MayGermany · 77 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.7°C · 59 mm rain
- Paderborn in MayGermany · 84 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 8.8°C · 66 mm rain
- Detmold in MayGermany · 86 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 9.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Braunschweig in MayGermany · 91 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Hannover in MayGermany · 94 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 8.9°C · 60 mm rain
- Erfurt in MayGermany · 99 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.3°C · 63 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 Göttingen) is explained once on the Göttingen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.