Climate averages 1991–2020
Regensburg weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Regensburg: daytime highs average 18.9°C and nights cool to about 9.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 82 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 16 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Landshut (54 km away). In May its highs average 18.3°C, 0.5°C cooler than Regensburg, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Regensburg ranks joint 7th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 105th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Regensburg is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 22.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 82 mm to 86 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
Regensburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.2°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 55 | 11.1 | 8.79 h |
| February | 5.1°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 45 | 9.7 | 10.110 h |
| March | 9.7°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 58 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.7°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 49 | 10.3 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 18.9°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 82 | 13.3 | 15.315 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 86 | 13.3 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.0°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 94 | 13.7 | 15.816 h |
| August | 24.0°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 84 | 12.2 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.2°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 64 | 10.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 58 | 10.6 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 55 | 10.2 | 9.29 h |
| December | 3.8°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 59 | 11.9 | 8.38 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
- Landshut in MayGermany · 54 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 9.2°C · 109 mm rain
- Ingolstadt in MayGermany · 57 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.1°C · 76 mm rain
- Nuremberg in MayGermany · 89 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 9.0°C · 72 mm rain
- Fürth in MayGermany · 96 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 8.8°C · 72 mm rain
- Erlangen in MayGermany · 102 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 8.9°C · 72 mm rain
- Munich in MayGermany · 105 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 7.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Bayreuth in MayGermany · 110 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 8.7°C · 74 mm rain
- Augsburg in MayGermany · 114 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 8.4°C · 110 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 Regensburg) is explained once on the Regensburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.