Climate averages 1991–2020
Paderborn weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Paderborn: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 8.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 66 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 37 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Detmold (26 km away). In May its highs average 17.5°C, about as warm as Paderborn, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Paderborn ranks joint 98th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 68th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Paderborn is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 20.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 66 mm to 70 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
Paderborn climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.2°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 81 | 14.5 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.3°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 64 | 12.7 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.9°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 70 | 13.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.5°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 56 | 12.0 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 17.3°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 66 | 12.3 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 70 | 13.0 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.4°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 81 | 13.9 | 16.216 h |
| August | 22.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 81 | 13.1 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.3°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 71 | 11.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 73 | 13.0 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 72 | 13.4 | 8.99 h |
| December | 4.9°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 82 | 14.7 | 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
- Detmold in MayGermany · 26 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 9.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Gütersloh in MayGermany · 33 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 8.8°C · 61 mm rain
- Bielefeld in MayGermany · 38 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.7°C · 61 mm rain
- Arnsberg in MayGermany · 60 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.0°C · 68 mm rain
- Minden in MayGermany · 64 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Hamm in MayGermany · 64 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 8.9°C · 57 mm rain
- Kassel in MayGermany · 68 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 8.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Osnabrück in MayGermany · 78 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 8.9°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 Paderborn) is explained once on the Paderborn year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.