Climate averages 1991–2020

Siegen 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.

Average high 16.9°C Daytime mean, May
Average low 8.4°C Night-time mean, May
Rainfall 72 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 15 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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May is a mild month in Siegen: daytime highs average 16.9°C and nights cool to about 8.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 30 min on an average May day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lüdenscheid (47 km away). In May its highs average 15.8°C, 1.1°C cooler than Siegen, with 82 mm of rain.

Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Siegen ranks 107th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 86th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Siegen is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.

From May to June, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 19.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 76 mm.

The annual picture

May in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Siegen climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Siegen, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 3.2°C-1.4°C-1.4°C10014.68.58 h
February 4.3°C-1.6°C-1.6°C7912.110.010 h
March 8.3°C1.0°C1.0°C8213.711.812 h
April 13.1°C4.4°C4.4°C6211.713.814 h
May, selected 16.9°C8.4°C8.4°C7212.615.515 h
June 19.9°C11.5°C11.5°C7612.816.416 h
July 21.9°C13.7°C13.7°C8314.216.016 h
August 21.6°C13.5°C13.5°C8113.014.615 h
September 17.6°C10.4°C10.4°C7611.612.713 h
October 12.7°C6.8°C6.8°C8012.910.811 h
November 7.4°C3.0°C3.0°C8513.49.09 h
December 4.0°C0.0°C0.0°C10915.88.08 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

Distance from Siegen

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Siegen) is explained once on the Siegen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.