Climate averages 1991–2020
Stavanger 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 Stavanger: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about 6.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 93 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 52 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bergen (160 km away). In May its highs average 12.2°C, 0.7°C warmer than Stavanger, with 116 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Stavanger ranks 8th of 8 for the warmest May highs and 7th of 8 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 8 cities is 13.9°C; Stavanger is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 14.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 93 mm to 102 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
Stavanger climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 195 | 18.6 | 7.07 h |
| February | 3.4°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 157 | 16.3 | 9.29 h |
| March | 4.8°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 133 | 16.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.2°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 94 | 14.2 | 14.414 h |
| May, selected | 11.5°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 93 | 13.4 | 16.917 h |
| June | 14.2°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 102 | 14.3 | 18.318 h |
| July | 16.5°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 122 | 15.2 | 17.718 h |
| August | 16.9°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 169 | 16.9 | 15.515 h |
| September | 14.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 201 | 17.1 | 12.913 h |
| October | 10.4°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 221 | 18.5 | 10.310 h |
| November | 6.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 210 | 18.5 | 7.88 h |
| December | 4.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 209 | 19.1 | 6.36 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
- Bergen in MayNorway · 160 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 5.6°C · 116 mm rain
- Kristiansand in MayNorway · 160 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 7.4°C · 77 mm rain
- Drammen in MayNorway · 268 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 6.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Fredrikstad in MayNorway · 298 kmHigh 14.7°C · Low 7.6°C · 61 mm rain
- Oslo in MayNorway · 302 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
- Aalborg in MayDenmark · 326 kmHigh 15.0°C · Low 7.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Gothenburg in MaySweden · 390 kmHigh 15.5°C · Low 7.5°C · 72 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 Stavanger) is explained once on the Stavanger year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.