Climate averages 1991–2020
Ratingen weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Ratingen: daytime highs average 17.9°C and nights cool to about 9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 2nd 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 Düsseldorf (10 km away). In May its highs average 18.2°C, about as warm as Ratingen, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Ratingen ranks joint 62nd of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 62nd of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Ratingen is level with that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 20.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 64 mm to 76 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
Ratingen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.1°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 79 | 14.0 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.3°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 67 | 12.3 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.9°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 67 | 13.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 52 | 10.9 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 17.9°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 64 | 11.6 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 76 | 12.5 | 16.517 h |
| July | 22.8°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 85 | 13.7 | 16.116 h |
| August | 22.5°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 83 | 12.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 70 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 77 | 12.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 76 | 13.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 5.7°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 89 | 15.0 | 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
- Düsseldorf in MayGermany · 10 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Velbert in MayGermany · 14 kmHigh 16.7°C · Low 8.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Mülheim in MayGermany · 15 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 62 mm rain
- Neuss in MayGermany · 16 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 9.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Duisburg in MayGermany · 16 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 59 mm rain
- Oberhausen in MayGermany · 20 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Krefeld in MayGermany · 21 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Essen in MayGermany · 21 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.0°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 Ratingen) is explained once on the Ratingen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Düsseldorf and Neuss lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.