Climate averages 1991–2020
Kaiserslautern weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Kaiserslautern: daytime highs average 18.4°C and nights cool to about 9.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 74 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 19 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Worms (47 km away). In May its highs average 19.1°C, 0.7°C warmer than Kaiserslautern, with 61 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Kaiserslautern ranks joint 28th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 93rd of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Kaiserslautern is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.4°C to 21.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 74 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
Kaiserslautern climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.5°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 57 | 11.3 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.0°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 52 | 10.0 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.1°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 58 | 11.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 54 | 11.2 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 18.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 74 | 12.7 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.8°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 67 | 11.7 | 16.216 h |
| July | 24.0°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 72 | 12.7 | 15.816 h |
| August | 23.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 65 | 11.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.4°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 60 | 10.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.3°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 62 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 60 | 11.9 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.2°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 72 | 13.4 | 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
- Worms in MayGermany · 47 kmHigh 19.1°C · Low 9.6°C · 61 mm rain
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein in MayGermany · 49 kmHigh 19.4°C · Low 9.9°C · 67 mm rain
- Mannheim in MayGermany · 51 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.9°C · 67 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in MayGermany · 60 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Heidelberg, Germany in MayGermany · 67 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 9.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in MayGermany · 67 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 10.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Mainz in MayGermany · 70 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Wiesbaden in MayGermany · 79 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.8°C · 62 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 Kaiserslautern) is explained once on the Kaiserslautern year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.