Climate averages 1991–2020
Stuttgart weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Stuttgart: daytime highs average 18.7°C and nights cool to about 9.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 84 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 14 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Esslingen (10 km away). In May its highs average 18.8°C, about as warm as Stuttgart, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Stuttgart ranks joint 13th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 108th of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Stuttgart is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.3°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 84 mm to 75 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
Stuttgart climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 65 | 12.2 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.3°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 55 | 10.2 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.4°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 67 | 12.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.9°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 54 | 11.4 | 13.714 h |
| May, selected | 18.7°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 84 | 13.6 | 15.215 h |
| June | 22.0°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 75 | 13.1 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.1°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 79 | 12.5 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.1°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 68 | 11.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.7°C10.8°C | 10.8°C | 62 | 10.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 66 | 11.3 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.1°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 66 | 11.1 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.5°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 73 | 13.2 | 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
- Esslingen in MayGermany · 10 kmHigh 18.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 84 mm rain
- Ludwigsburg in MayGermany · 13 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 8.9°C · 81 mm rain
- Tübingen in MayGermany · 30 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 8.6°C · 93 mm rain
- Reutlingen in MayGermany · 32 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 8.5°C · 95 mm rain
- Pforzheim in MayGermany · 37 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 9.6°C · 85 mm rain
- Heilbronn in MayGermany · 40 kmHigh 19.2°C · Low 9.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in MayGermany · 62 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 10.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Ulm in MayGermany · 74 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 8.3°C · 95 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 Stuttgart) is explained once on the Stuttgart year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Esslingen lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.