Climate averages 1991–2020
Velbert 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 Velbert: daytime highs average 16.7°C and nights cool to about 8.5°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 33 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Wuppertal (11 km away). In May its highs average 17.5°C, 0.7°C warmer than Velbert, with 78 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Velbert ranks 109th 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; Velbert is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 19.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 72 mm to 83 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
Velbert climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 98 | 14.9 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 80 | 13.4 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.7°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 79 | 13.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.0°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 60 | 11.6 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 16.7°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 72 | 12.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 19.6°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 83 | 12.9 | 16.517 h |
| July | 21.6°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 98 | 14.5 | 16.116 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 94 | 13.7 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.7°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 80 | 12.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.0°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 87 | 12.9 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.0°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 88 | 14.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.6°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 106 | 16.1 | 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
- Wuppertal in MayGermany · 11 kmHigh 17.5°C · Low 9.1°C · 78 mm rain
- Essen in MayGermany · 14 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Ratingen in MayGermany · 14 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 9.5°C · 64 mm rain
- Mülheim in MayGermany · 16 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.6°C · 62 mm rain
- Solingen in MayGermany · 18 kmHigh 17.1°C · Low 8.8°C · 72 mm rain
- Gelsenkirchen in MayGermany · 19 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Remscheid in MayGermany · 20 kmHigh 16.3°C · Low 8.0°C · 78 mm rain
- Bochum in MayGermany · 20 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 9.0°C · 67 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 Velbert) is explained once on the Velbert year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Solingen lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.