Climate averages 1991–2020
Mönchengladbach weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Mönchengladbach: daytime highs average 18.1°C and nights cool to about 9.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 32 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Viersen (8 km away). In May its highs average 18.1°C, about as warm as Mönchengladbach, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Mönchengladbach ranks joint 42nd of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 42nd of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Mönchengladbach is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 20.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 62 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
Mönchengladbach climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.5°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 70 | 13.3 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.7°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 62 | 11.7 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.2°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 61 | 12.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.3°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 49 | 10.6 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 18.1°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 62 | 11.6 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.9°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 73 | 12.3 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.0°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 81 | 13.3 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.8°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 79 | 12.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 66 | 11.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 69 | 11.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.4°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 68 | 12.9 | 9.09 h |
| December | 6.0°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 79 | 14.2 | 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
- Viersen in MayGermany · 8 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Neuss in MayGermany · 17 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Krefeld in MayGermany · 19 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Düsseldorf in MayGermany · 24 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Venlo in MayThe Netherlands · 28 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.4°C · 61 mm rain
- Ratingen in MayGermany · 31 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 9.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Moers in MayGermany · 33 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Duisburg in MayGermany · 36 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 59 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 Mönchengladbach) is explained once on the Mönchengladbach year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Krefeld and Viersen lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.