Climate averages 1991–2020
Modena weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Modena: daytime highs average 22.6°C and nights cool to about 11.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 47 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Carpi (15 km away). In May its highs average 23.2°C, 0.7°C warmer than Modena, with 73 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Modena ranks joint 19th of 79 for the warmest May highs and joint 41st of 79 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 79 cities is 21.8°C; Modena is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 4.6°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 73 mm to 56 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
Modena climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.8°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 43 | 7.0 | 9.29 h |
| February | 9.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 54 | 7.2 | 10.410 h |
| March | 14.2°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 54 | 7.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.8°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 73 | 10.4 | 13.413 h |
| May, selected | 22.6°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 73 | 9.6 | 14.815 h |
| June | 27.2°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 56 | 8.3 | 15.516 h |
| July | 30.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 47 | 6.3 | 15.215 h |
| August | 29.6°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 53 | 7.6 | 14.114 h |
| September | 24.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 68 | 8.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 18.5°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 69 | 8.3 | 11.011 h |
| November | 12.7°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 78 | 9.2 | 9.610 h |
| December | 8.2°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 59 | 7.9 | 8.99 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
- Carpi in MayItaly · 15 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 12.4°C · 73 mm rain
- Reggio nell'Emilia in MayItaly · 24 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 11.5°C · 84 mm rain
- Bologna in MayItaly · 37 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 12.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Parma in MayItaly · 50 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 11.7°C · 82 mm rain
- Ferrara in MayItaly · 59 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 12.8°C · 76 mm rain
- Pistoia in MayItaly · 80 kmHigh 21.6°C · Low 11.3°C · 79 mm rain
- Prato in MayItaly · 86 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 11.6°C · 79 mm rain
- Verona in MayItaly · 88 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 12.0°C · 111 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 Modena) is explained once on the Modena year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Carpi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.