Climate averages 1991–2020
Leipzig 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 Leipzig: daytime highs average 18.5°C and nights cool to about 9.2°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 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 33 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Halle (Saale) (31 km away). In May its highs average 18.4°C, about as warm as Leipzig, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Leipzig ranks joint 25th 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; Leipzig is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 21.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 61 mm to 59 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
Leipzig 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-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 48 | 11.4 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.2°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 37 | 9.8 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 49 | 11.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 38 | 9.3 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 18.5°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 61 | 10.8 | 15.616 h |
| June | 21.7°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 59 | 11.0 | 16.517 h |
| July | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 74 | 11.9 | 16.116 h |
| August | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 62 | 11.2 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.3°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 56 | 9.6 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 48 | 10.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.1°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 52 | 10.7 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.4°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 51 | 12.4 | 8.08 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
- Halle (Saale) in MayGermany · 31 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Gera in MayGermany · 55 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.2°C · 66 mm rain
- Chemnitz in MayGermany · 68 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 8.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Zwickau in MayGermany · 69 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 8.8°C · 75 mm rain
- Jena in MayGermany · 71 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Dresden in MayGermany · 101 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.1°C · 75 mm rain
- Erfurt in MayGermany · 101 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.3°C · 63 mm rain
- Magdeburg in MayGermany · 102 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 9.2°C · 57 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 Leipzig) is explained once on the Leipzig year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.