Climate averages 1991–2020
Budapest weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Budapest: daytime highs average 21.3°C and nights cool to about 11.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 05 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Székesfehérvár (59 km away). In May its highs average 21.1°C, about as warm as Budapest, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Hungary, Budapest ranks 8th of 11 for the warmest May highs and joint 6th of 11 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 11 cities is 21.5°C; Budapest is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 3.6°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 67 mm to 71 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
Budapest 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-2.8°C | -2.8°C | 36 | 8.0 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.6°C-2.2°C | -2.2°C | 35 | 8.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 40 | 8.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.7°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 45 | 8.9 | 13.614 h |
| May, selected | 21.3°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 67 | 11.9 | 15.115 h |
| June | 24.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 71 | 10.9 | 15.916 h |
| July | 27.0°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 69 | 10.2 | 15.616 h |
| August | 27.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 58 | 8.7 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 58 | 8.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 53 | 8.1 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 51 | 8.7 | 9.49 h |
| December | 3.7°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 43 | 8.3 | 8.59 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
- Székesfehérvár in MayHungary · 59 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 11.3°C · 63 mm rain
- Kecskemét in MayHungary · 82 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 11.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Szolnok in MayHungary · 94 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 12.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Győr in MayHungary · 107 kmHigh 20.9°C · Low 11.3°C · 67 mm rain
- Nitra in MaySlovakia · 115 kmHigh 20.6°C · Low 10.5°C · 67 mm rain
- Banská Bystrica in MaySlovakia · 138 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 8.9°C · 106 mm rain
- Miskolc in MayHungary · 146 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.0°C · 69 mm rain
- Bratislava in MaySlovakia · 161 kmHigh 20.4°C · Low 10.6°C · 68 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 Budapest) is explained once on the Budapest year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.