Climate averages 1991–2020
Bergen weather
in May.
A cool, wet month: the 5th warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a cool month in Bergen: daytime highs average 12.2°C and nights cool to about 5.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes May a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 17 h 13 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Stavanger (160 km away). In May its highs average 11.5°C, 0.7°C cooler than Bergen, with 93 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Bergen ranks 7th of 8 for the warmest May highs and 8th of 8 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 8 cities is 13.9°C; Bergen is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.8°C to 15.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 116 mm to 121 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
Bergen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.4°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 249 | 20.3 | 6.77 h |
| February | 2.6°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 211 | 17.4 | 9.09 h |
| March | 4.6°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 192 | 18.3 | 11.712 h |
| April | 8.6°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 133 | 15.3 | 14.615 h |
| May, selected | 12.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 116 | 14.0 | 17.217 h |
| June | 15.0°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 121 | 14.1 | 18.819 h |
| July | 17.1°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 149 | 16.4 | 18.118 h |
| August | 17.1°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 188 | 17.3 | 15.716 h |
| September | 14.2°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 249 | 17.7 | 13.013 h |
| October | 9.7°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 259 | 19.3 | 10.210 h |
| November | 5.3°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 257 | 18.9 | 7.58 h |
| December | 2.9°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 271 | 20.0 | 5.96 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
- Stavanger in MayNorway · 160 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 6.6°C · 93 mm rain
- Drammen in MayNorway · 280 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Kristiansand in MayNorway · 292 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 7.4°C · 77 mm rain
- Oslo in MayNorway · 305 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.4°C · 77 mm rain
- Lillestrøm in MayNorway · 320 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 74 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in MayNorway · 339 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 7.6°C · 61 mm rain
- Trondheim in MayNorway · 429 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 3.8°C · 70 mm rain
- Aalborg in MayDenmark · 457 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.7°C · 62 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 Bergen) is explained once on the Bergen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.