Climate averages 1991–2020
Neumünster weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Neumünster: daytime highs average 16.6°C and nights cool to about 8.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 60 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 57 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kiel (29 km away). In May its highs average 16.2°C, about as warm as Neumünster, with 57 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Neumünster ranks 110th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 28th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Neumünster is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 19.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 60 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
Neumünster climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.7°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 64 | 12.4 | 8.08 h |
| February | 4.5°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 51 | 10.3 | 9.710 h |
| March | 7.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 52 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.5°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 45 | 10.2 | 14.014 h |
| May, selected | 16.6°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 60 | 11.1 | 16.016 h |
| June | 19.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 67 | 12.0 | 17.117 h |
| July | 21.7°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 76 | 12.8 | 16.617 h |
| August | 21.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 75 | 12.5 | 14.915 h |
| September | 17.7°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 56 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.7°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 60 | 11.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 7.6°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 54 | 11.5 | 8.69 h |
| December | 4.4°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 65 | 12.8 | 7.57 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
- Kiel in MayGermany · 29 kmHigh 16.2°C · Low 8.3°C · 57 mm rain
- Norderstedt in MayGermany · 41 kmHigh 17.0°C · Low 8.4°C · 61 mm rain
- Lübeck in MayGermany · 51 kmHigh 16.8°C · Low 8.5°C · 60 mm rain
- Hamburg in MayGermany · 58 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Flensburg in MayGermany · 87 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 7.9°C · 55 mm rain
- Lüneburg in MayGermany · 96 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Schwerin in MayGermany · 106 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 8.5°C · 58 mm rain
- Bremerhaven in MayGermany · 109 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.5°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 Neumünster) is explained once on the Neumünster year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.